His Father, a doctor who served as senior physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had no great interest in the arts - though he was a brilliant amateur conjuror- but his mother (Slade-trained painter and daughter of the royal physician, Lord Horder) was an enthusiast for modern architecture and filled the nursery with Aalto furniture.
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The club was the sports club of the Helsinki University of Technology, but as of 29 March 2010, the name has been Aalto-yliopiston urheiluseura, reflecting the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki into what is now the Aalto University.
The award is often made at the Alvar Aalto Symposium, held every four years in Jyväskylä, Aalto’s home town.
Docrates Oy was established in 2006 by physicist Pekka Aalto, doctor Timo Joensuu and physicist Harri Puurunen.
Landmarks of Katajanokka include the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, also known as Uspenski Cathedral (architect Alexey Gornostaev, 1868), the Merikasarmi complex of the Foreign Ministry (architect Carl Ludvig Engel, 1825) and the Finnish headquarters of Stora Enso (architect Alvar Aalto, 1962; the most controversial of Aalto's works).
A second example, taking influence from Aalto, is the second-generation modernist architect Juha Leiviskä.
He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study (1983) - Reima Pietilä - Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism (1985) - and Juha Leiviskä - Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture (2001).
The 2009–2010 season saw him heading the premiere of La Sylphide with the Aalto Ballet Company.
Otaniemi Underground Broadcasting System, cable-TV channel of Aalto University Student Union (AYY)
Raimo P. Hämäläinen (b. 1948, Helsinki) is a professor of Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at the Aalto University School of Science (Aalto SCI), Finland.
Her close relatives include painter and documentary director Eeli Aalto and magician Simo Aalto.