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Alvar Aalto: When Modernism Learns to Breathe

Finland, the 1930s. While international modernism imposed straight lines and a rational aesthetic, Alvar Aalto took another path.

Born in 1898, the architect and designer rejected cold, abstract functionalism in favor of a more human modernity, attentive to the body, light and everyday uses.

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