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Extract from the Jyvskyl Travel Guides:
JYVSKYL
is a pleasant low-key lake town which houses a big university - giving it a youthful feel - as well as being home to an array of buildings created by legendary Finnish architect
Alvar Aalto
. He grew up here and opened his first office in the town in 1923, and his handiwork - a collection of buildings spanning his entire career - provides an excellent showcase of his work.
Aalto left Jyvskyl in 1927 for fame, fortune and Helsinki, but returned in the 1950s to work on what by the 1970s had grown into the
Jyvskyl University
. Although Aalto died before his ambitious plan for an Ad...
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