Article: Architecture as humanism.(Alvar Aalto, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)

Following The Museum of Modern Art's epochal retrospectives of Louis Kahn in 1992 and Frank Lloyd Wright in 1994, it was decided in the councils of the museum's department of architecture and design that the next large solo exhibition should be devoted to a figure of comparable historical importance. There was virtually no argument that the honor belonged to Alvar Aalto of Finland, not least because of the striking contrast between the consensus that Aalto (1898-1976) ranks with the most select company of 20th-century architects and the relative paucity of recent museum events documenting and justifying that reputation. MOMA in fact had assembled the first American show ...

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