Elissa Aalto

Finnish architect (1922–1994) married to Alvar Aalto

Elissa Aalto is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Elissa Aalto as Finnish architect (1922–1994) married to Alvar Aalto.

Elissa Aalto was born at Kemi in 1922. Her recorded nationality is Finland. She was educated at Helsinki University of Technology.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Elissa Aalto is described as architect and designer.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

Her recorded fields of work are architect, architecture and design.

Working from Finland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 1994, at 72. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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