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Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (Kuortane, 3 February 1898 – Helsinki, 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect, designer and academic, among the most important figures in 20th century architecture and remembered - together with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier – as masters of the Modern Movement. Trained under the guidance of Armas Lindgren (exponent of the Finnish Romantic movement, which partly influenced Aalto's very first buildings), he traveled throughout Europe, acquiring a vast knowledge of contemporary trends in the architectural and artistic fields and visiting some territories - including which Italy – which will leave a profound mark on his way of understanding the city. Read the full biography

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (Kuortane, 3 February 1898 – Helsinki, 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect, designer and academic, among the most important figures in 20th century architecture and remembered - together with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier – as masters of the Modern Movement. Trained under the guidance of Armas Lindgren (exponent of the Finnish Romantic movement, which partly influenced Aalto's very first buildings), he traveled throughout Europe, acquiring a vast knowledge of contemporary trends in the architectural and artistic fields and visiting some territories - including which Italy – which will leave a profound mark on his way of understanding the city. After obtaining a degree in architecture at the Helsinki Polytechnic in 1921, he opened - two years later - the first professional studio in the city of Jyväskylä (and then moved to Turku), dealing with both design and architecture: among the works of this period, interesting are the Casa del Popolo of Jyväskylä (1924-1925), in which he created a spectacular stained glass window decorated with designs inspired by the panels of the Tempietto del Santo Sepolcro for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (work by Leon Battista Alberti), and the church by Muurame (1926-1929), the first significant reflection on the theme of the similarity between Italian and Finnish landscapes.