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after six long days and nights in splendid

once a perfunctory structural element

An ultra-lightweight design

With just 35 known works

Then in July

Taschen Aalto 8 after six long days andInfluenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aaltos organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood, often incorporating undulating, wave like forms, which