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Alvar Aalto: When Modernism Learns to Breathe!

Finland, 1930s. While International Modernism imposed straight lines and a rational aesthetic, Alvar Aalto took a different path. 

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

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