Master key

2007-01-30T00:00:00

Shigeru Ban

Source: Alvar Aalto museum/Eva and Pertti Ingervo

When Shigeru Ban first visited Alvar Aalto’s work, its humanity leapt out in a way no textbook had prepared him for. In an exhibition at the Barbican in London this month, and in these eight pages of edited extracts from the accompanying book, Ban explains the profundity of Aalto’s influence ...

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