Word: alvar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of the exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...
...British art-crafter William Morris, in a mistaken attempt to defy the Machine Age. The historical survey moved onward with examples of tubular steel sitting machines by German Bauhausler Marcel Breuer and French Architect Le Corbusier, to the light, cardboardy modern plywood seats and tables by Finland's Alvar Aalto...
After conducting his course in housing research at M.I.T. for the next few months, Alvar Aalto, well-known Finnish architect, will return to his native land to aid in the reconstruction of Finland...
Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...