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Danish Modern architect was born in Copenhagen, 1918. He studied at the Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1937-42), and spent the war years 1942-5 with Gunnar Asplund. In 1946 he visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki. He traveled in Europe (1947-8) and the USA and Mexico (1949), then established [...]

The singular figure who established modern architecture in Finland. He studied at Helsinki Polytechnic, graduating in 1921 with all possible honours. His early work showed the familiar signs of a developing Neo-Classicism, but he ruptured the architectural scene in 1929 with his Internationalist-inspired entry for Paimio Sanatorium in the W of Finland. The obvious recall [...]