Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland, on 3 February 1898. Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His fifty-year career included work in the fields of furniture, textiles, painting, sculpting, landscape, urban planning, glassware, and jewelry. The ‘Southwestern Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building’, which fetched him his first award, propelled his career. Frank Lloyd Wright described Aalto's design at the New York’s World Fair - the Finnish Pavilion was a “work of genius.”
