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Aalto
Aalto is a Finnish surname meaning "wave". Notable people with the surname include: * Aino Aalto (1894–1949), Finnish architect and designer * Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat * Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), Finnish architect and designer * Antti Aalto (born 1975), Finnish ice hockey player * Artturi Aalto (1876–1937), Finnish politician * Arvo Aalto (born 1932), Finnish politician * Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto (born 1970), Finnish runner * Einari Aalto (1926–1985), Finnish swimmer * Elissa Aalto (1922–1994), Finnish architect * Henri Aalto (born 1989), Finnish football player * Iiro Aalto (born 1977), Finnish footballer * Ilmari Aalto (1891–1934), Finnish painter * Jorma Aalto (born 1957), Finnish skier * Jussi Aalto (born 1983), Finnish footballer * Jyri Aalto (born 1969), Finnish badminton player * Kalle Aalto (1884–1950), Finnish politician * Kathryn Aalto, American landscape designer * Marja-Sisko Aalto (born 1954) Finnish minister of the Evangelical Lut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career ran in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his clients were industrialists, among them the Ahlström-Gullichsen family, who became his patrons. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style (architecture), International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His architectural work, throughout his entire career, is characterized by a concern for design as Gesamtkunstwerk— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saara Aalto
Saara Sofia Aalto (born 2 May 1987) is a Finnish singer, songwriter, and voice actress. In 2012 she came second in the first season of ''The Voice of Finland''. In 2016 Aalto finished as the runner-up in the thirteenth series of ''The X Factor UK'', which gained her international recognition. In 2018 she represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, in which she qualified for the grand final and finished in 25th place. Aalto became a judge on '' X Factor Suomi'' during the same year. In 2019, she participated on Dancing on Ice and finished in third place. Early life Born in Oulunsalo, Finland, Aalto grew up in a musical family and received piano lessons from pianist and pedagogue Olga Maslak, born in Odessa, Soviet Union. Aalto wrote her first song at the age of five. Her close relatives include painter and documentary director Eeli Aalto and magician Simo Aalto. In 1998 at age 11, she won the Kotka Maritime Festival song contest for children with one of her own c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aino Aalto
Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born Aino Maria Mandelin; 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as a co-founder of the design company Artek and as a collaborator on its most well-known designs. As Artek's first artistic director, her creative output spanned textiles, lamps, glassware, and buildings. It has been discovered that it was Aino who completed the first work commissioned through Artek which was the Viipuri Library in 1935. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York,and the MoMA has included her work in nine exhibitions. Aino Aalto’s first exhibition was ''Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibitions: Design for Use'' at MoMA in 1944. Other major exhibitions were at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Chelsea Space in London. Aino Aalto has been exhibited with Pablo Picasso. Biography Aino Mandelin was born in Helsinki. Her family lived in a co-operative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaltonen
Aaltonen is a Finnish surname, a variant of Aalto. Notable people with the surname include: *Aimo Aaltonen (1906–1987), Finnish communist politician *Ali Aaltonen (1884–1918), Lieutenant in the Imperial Russian army *Arvo Aaltonen (1892–1949), Finnish swimmer * Carina Aaltonen (born 1964), Finnish politician *Emil Aaltonen (1869–1949), Finnish industrialist and philanthropist * Erkki Aaltonen (1910–1990), Finnish composer * Jani Aaltonen (born 1990), Finnish footballer *Juhamatti Aaltonen (born 1985), Finnish ice hockey player *Juhani Aaltonen (born 1935), Finnish jazz musician * Lasse Aaltonen, Finnish World War II ace * Leevi Aaltonen (born 2001), Finnish ice hockey player *Mika Aaltonen (born 1965), former Finnish football (soccer) player * Mikael Aaltonen (born 1991), Finnish ice hockey player * Minna Aaltonen (born 1966), Finnish actress * Miro Aaltonen (born 1993), Finnish ice hockey player * Nico Aaltonen (born 1988), Finnish ice hockey player *Paavo Aaltonen (1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmari Aalto
Ilmari Aalto (August 7, 1891 – 29 September 1934) was a Finnish painter. He was a member of the expressionist November Group led by the artist Tyko Sallinen. Aalto painted still lives, landscapes and portraits. Life Aalto was born in Kuopio. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1907 to 1908 and the Finnish Art Society drawing school from 1908 to 1910.Marja SakariAalto, Ilmari (1891 - 1934)''Kansallisbiografia''. 11.10.2000. Career Most of Aalto's landscape paintings are of Töölö and Suursaari. Aalto together with Alfred William Finch aided Eero Järnefelt paint the large landscape ''Koli'' at the Helsinki Central Station in 1911. Järnefelt and Finch were more involved in the design, but of the three artists only Aalto dared to climb the tall ladder. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Aalto
Elissa Aalto (born Elsa Kaisa Mäkiniemi, 22 November 1922 – 12 April 1994) was a Finnish architect.Virtanen, Berit: "Obituary: Elissa Aalto", in ''The Independent'', 23 April 1994 Life Elsa Mäkiniemi graduated in architecture from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1949, and the same year she joined the office of Alvar Aalto. They married in 1952, when she was 29 and he was 54, and they had no children together. At that time, the office was working on several architecture competitions and on some extensive public commissions in Finland and abroad. After marrying Alvar Aalto in 1952, Elsa Mäkiniemi began using the name Elissa Aalto. She was supervising architect on several of the office’s major building projects, the earliest being the construction site for Säynätsalo Town Hall (1949–52). This was followed, for instance, by Jyväskylä Institute of Pedagogics (now the University of Jyväskylä, 1951–71), the private house Maison Louis Carré (1956–65) in Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aalto
William Eric Aalto (born William Oliver Ahlström, July 30, 1915 – June 11, 1958) was an American soldier and member of Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. Early life William Eric Aalto, of Finnish extraction, was born in the Bronx, New York on July 30, 1915. His mother, a militant member of the Finnish Communist Party, had fled to the United States due to her radical political beliefs. She enrolled in the local communist party, educating her son with Marxist ideology. After leaving school, he worked as a truck driver and was a member of the Young Communist League.Romerstein, Herbert. ''Heroic Victims: Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War''. p. 87. Spanish Civil War Aalto arrived in Spain on February 17, 1937, joining the other International Brigades at Albacete. In March 1937 he joined the Spanish Communist Party. During the war, he volunteered for dangerous guerrilla operations which fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touko Aalto
Touko Juhani Aalto (born 1 April 1984) is a Finnish politician. He was chairman of the Green League from 2017 to 2018. He represented the electoral district of Central Finland in the Parliament of Finland 2015–2019. Life Aalto was born in Savonlinna and later lived in Joensuu. He currently lives in Jyväskylä, Finland. Aalto graduated as Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Jyväskylä in 2008. He worked as a cleaner and salesperson before becoming parliamentary assistant of MP Jani Toivola in 2011. Aalto was elected to the City Council of Jyväskylä in 2008 and to the Parliament in 2015. He is the first Green Member of the Parliament from Central Finland. He is currently member of the Finance Committee of the Parliament. In the 2017 municipal elections, Aalto received the most personal votes in Jyväskylä at the same time when the Green League became the largest party of Jyväskylä. On 17 June 2017, Aalto won the Green League leadership election, and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marja-Sisko Aalto
Marja-Sisko Aalto (born July 29, 1954) is a Finnish writer of detective fiction and former minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. She was the vicar of the Imatra parish from 1986 to 2010. She became notable as Finland's first openly transgender minister. In 2009, the Finnish Women's Association named Aalto . Since her resignation as vicar, she has pursued a career as a writer. Early life and education Alto was born on July 29, 1954, in Lappeenranta as the seventh of eight children and was assigned male at birth. She entered the faculty of theology at the University of Helsinki in 1973. Clerical career Aalto was the vicar of the Imatra parish from 1986 to 2010. In November 2008, Aalto came out as trans woman and announced her intent to have sex reassignment surgery. According to Aalto, her parents had decided to give her the name Marja-Sisko if she had been born a girl, as they had hoped. She was preoccupied with the issue of gender from the age of three. Although her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aalto-1
Aalto-1 is a Finnish research nanosatellite, created by students of Aalto University. Based on the CubeSat architecture, it was originally scheduled to be launched in 2013, it was launched on 23 June 2017. It is Finland's first student satellite project and indigenously-produced satellite. As of 2021, the satellite is operational. Project history The Aalto-1 project began in 2010 with a feasibility study, which was conducted as part of a university course on space technology. The study was followed by the publication of a preliminary design in 2011. A critical design review (CDR) of the satellite was conducted in 2012. In all, over 80 students of Aalto University's School of Electrical Engineering were involved in the project. Design The solar-powered CubeSat - based satellite will weigh approximately , and has 3 main payloads: a miniature Fabry-Pérot spectrometer, designed by VTT Technical Research Centre, a RADMON-radiation detector developed by University of Helsink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Aalto
Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape designer, historian, educator and ''New York Times'' Bestselling author based in Exeter, England. Early life and education Kathryn Aalto grew up in Escalon, California, where she developed a lifelong interest in landscape history, design and literature of place. She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, Western Washington University, the London College of Garden Design and the University of Bristol, from which she received a Bachelor's in English, a Master's in English, a Diploma in Garden Design and a Master's in Garden History. Career Writing Aalto wrote the non-fiction book ''The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood,'' published in 2015 by Timber Press, which became a New York Times Bestseller in February 2016. It was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" on October 26, 2015, and selected as a ''People'' magazine Best Pick in Nonfiction in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Aalto
Alec Mikael Aalto (24 September 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Finnish diplomat. In the Foreign Ministry, he started in 1979 and served as Finland's Ambassador in Austria (1991–1995), Italy (2003–2006) and Sweden in 2006–2010 until his retirement. Education Aalto was born in Helsinki, and studied at Svenska normallyceum before graduating as a bachelor of law in 1967 from the University of Helsinki. Between 1968 and 1970, he studied international law at Oxford University. Career Between 1970 and 1972, Aalto worked as a journalist for Finnish Broadcasting Company, after which he was from 1973 to 1975 Head of Information department in the Council of State. He also served as the Head of Press Affairs in the European Security and Cooperation Conference. In Aalto was in 1975 in the Prime Minister Keijo Liinama's caretaker cabinet as Prime Minister's secretary and from 1976 to 1978, the information director of Neste Oy. Aalto joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1979. Unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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