Word: brittlest
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...Aalto never took the final vows of modernism. Strict symmetry and monoliths left him cold. Rather, an Aalto building is apt to swell or zigzag confoundingly, to have lines and textures that seem more botanical and geological than geometrical. Ahead of his time, he declined to enforce the brittlest dogmas of the new. Thirty years before the phrase was coined, Aalto was a postmodernist, the first...
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