Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Happy Birthday Mr. Hugo Wave...

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Aalto means 'wave' in Finnish.  Which is appropriate for an architect who brought sinuous, wave-like, fan forms to soften and humanise rational, rectilinear, Modernism. His first name was actually Hugo - maybe he liked the alliteration from his middle name more...

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto. Syntyi 1898, kuoli 1976.

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