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Article: Birthday celebrations. (activities to commemorate Finnish architect Alvar Aalto)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Aalto celebrations are building up in Finland and abroad. Peter MacKeith comments on new Aalto enthusiasm and looks at the two key exhibitions in Helsinki and New York, which will both travel internationally later this year.
'A prophet is not without honour, save in his own county', remarked Christ to St Matthew. Their Latin original rendering was Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's ironically caustic title for his private boat, reflecting his sense of being overlooked professionally during his younger days and then attacked as the 'Establishment' during his waning years. The phrase almost arrogantly haunts this year's centenary celebrations of Aalto's birth. For such ...