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Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men, however, he never issued architectural rules, attracted many disciples, or even handed down sculptural forms to copy. His work remains influential mainly for what are really moral reasons. " Architecture-the real thing," Aalto once said, "is only to be found when man stands in the center." All architects talk about...
After spending a summer on the European Tour combatting the fiords of Scandinavia and the heath and harebells of Pennal, Yorkshire, where the British Youth Championship was played, Vik, along with six other members of the golf squad will spend spring vacation among the palmetto fronds of Florida limbering up for the coming season...
...battle for equality is almost totally won in Scandinavia. Divorce is relatively easy, abortion is mostly free, and in Sweden, either parent can receive temporary compensation from the state for staying home with a baby or a sick child, instead of going to work. To demonstrate that the country cannot function without them, Icelandic women staged a one-day strike in October: schools, theaters and telephone service were all shut down...
...alumni office also plans to begin to explore new formats and areas. On August 6-40 alumni and two experts on Nordic culture, Janet and Ulf Rasmussen, will leave for a cruise in Scandinavia. While the cost of the cruise--between $2074 and $3471--may keep many younger alumni from joining it, Kimball says he feels it is important that the office continue to explore different possibilities for continuing education...
...defined in terms of income or power, but poverty as a simple, unchanging fact of life. Told by a Norwegian woman of eighty, and compiled by journalist Dagfinn Gronoset, this narrative speaks with misleading ease of the unbelievable suffering and humiliation that Anna endured in the mountain farmlands of Scandinavia...