" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.

Alvar and Elissa Aalto in the 1950s

The signature of Alvar Aalto on the wall of Jyväskylä's theatre building.

Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki ( 1954 – 56 )

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland.

The Aaltos designed and built a joint house-office ( 1935 – 36 ) for themselves in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later ( 1954 – 56 ) had a purpose-built office built in the same neighbourhood-the latter building nowadays houses the Alvar Aalto Academy.

Aino and Alvar Aalto had 2 children, a daughter Johanna " Hanni " Alanen, born Aalto, 1925, and a son Hamilkar Aalto, 1928.

It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

Since the death of Elissa Aalto the office has continued to operate as the Alvar Aalto Academy, giving advice on the restoration of Aalto buildings and organising the vast archive material.

Aalto glassware ( Aino as well as Alvar ) is manufactured by Iittala.

Along with Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

The other revised bills honored architect Alvar Aalto, composer Jean Sibelius, Enlightenment thinker Anders Chydenius and author Elias Lönnrot, respectively.

* Alvar Aalto

* May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect ( b. 1898 )

* February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect ( d. 1976 )

In 1946 he visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki.

Later, the Housing Foundation made significant changes to the plans, and handed planning of Tapiola over to a group of prominent Finnish architects, including Aarne Ervi, Alvar Aalto, and Kaija Siren.

He attended Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on a scholarship in 1945-46, during which time he did vacation work with Alvar Aalto in Boston drawing up plans for the Baker dormitory at MIT.

Alvar habitat on Kelleys Island.

Saint Kulasekhara Alvar prays to the Lord Srinivasa to grant him even the lowest birth in the holy Tirumala Hills — as a fish in the sacred Swami Pushkarini, or as a tree, or as anything on the golden hills of Lord Venkateswara ( emberumaan ponmalai mEl EdhEnum avEnE ).

Sheriff Alvar Kresh also returns in this book, brought along largely as window dressing for the Governor, since his jurisdiction is essentially nonexistent on the Island of Purgatory.

In 1908 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos famously proclaimed that architectural ornament was criminal, and his essay on that topic would become foundational to Modernism and eventually trigger the careers of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld.

Other prominent styles apparent on the island are modernism, manifested in Alvar Aalto's Enso-Gutzeit Building, and the red-brick industrial former harbour buildings and prison ( now a Best Western hotel ).

Stunted tree growth can also occur in some cases of highly alkaline soils such as the Stora Alvaret or Great Alvar formation on the island of Öland in Sweden.

Porphyrios's PhD thesis from Princeton on the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was later published as the book: Sources of Modern Eclecticism ( Academy Editions, London, 1983 ).

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa contains apparent references to the South Indian Alvar saints and it makes a post factum prophecy of the spread of Vishnu worship in Tamil country ( BP XI. 5. 38 – 40 ); these facts, along with its emphasis on " emotional Bhakti to Krishna " and the " Advaita philosophy of Sankara ", lead many scholars to trace its origins to South India.

Madhurakavi Alvar became the Alvar's student and went on to compose poems about his prodigal master.

Madhurakavi Alvar was on a pilgrimage in North India, when all of a sudden, he began to observe a bright light shining forth from the southern direction.

Long before it became a town on 1 January 1921 per Executive Order No. 62 issued by Governor General Francis Burton Harrison on 28 December 1920 with Primitivo A. Castillo as its first Municipal President, Vice-President: Sulpicio P. Laurente & Councilors: Ciriaco Alba ; Bartolome Alvar ; Higino Basañez ; Escolastico Carmen ; Tomas Masancay ; Basilio Dua ; Macario Tenchavez.

* Alvar Lidell announces the Japanese attack on US targets in the Pacific, December 7, 1941

It was particularly influential on the proposal submitted for the competition for the design of the Viipuri Library in 1927 by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, who regarded Asplund as his mentor.

In fact, it was influential already before its completion, having an influence on the much smaller Turku Fair in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto and Erik Bryggman, who had travelled to Stockholm to see its construction.

Harry Weese studied under the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduated in 1938, and went on to study city planning while on a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

On the left were the missile troops from the Kingdom of León, led by Pedro Nuñez, and on the right Alvar Pérez de Guzmán with a cavalry corps.

Alvar habitat on Kelleys Island.

* The initial character begins on the Dagger Wound Islands with low-level equipment, as a caravan guard employed by the Merchant Guild of Alvar.

* Alvar Lidell announces the German invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, May 10, 1940

Kaarlo ( Kalle ) Alvar Päätalo ( November 11, 1919-November 20, 2000 ) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century.

Tord Alvar Quan Lidell ( 11 September 1908 – 7 January 1981 ) was a BBC radio announcer and newsreader.

The people did not know the 1000 that Nathamuni wanted, but they told him about 11 pasurams ( hymns ) of Madhurakavi Alvar, who was the disciple of Nammazhwar Kanninun Siruthaambu.