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• Setting the record straight on Milton Keynes | Letter

  25-03-2022 18:46
  
  It’s time to lay to rest the erroneous idea that Derek Walker was behind the town’s famous grid system, says Peter WatermanYour review of John Grindrod’s book Iconicon refers to Derek Walker as “the architect who laid out Milton Keynes”. In fact, the plan for the new town – including the main features of the grid road pattern, the linear park, the location of the centre and the districts, and the separation of housing and employment in the grid squares –
  
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• A Finnish furniture designer? Alvar Aalto deserves higher praise | Letter

  25-03-2022 18:43
  
  His wonderful buildings put him among the great architects of the 20th century, says Andrew DaileyDescribing Alvar Aalto as “a Finnish furniture designer” is a weird disservice in a piece that discusses modernist design (Modernist love: stylish 1930s living in the Isokon building, 19 March). Aalto is generally viewed as one of the great international architects of the 20th century, alongside the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Yes, he designed
  
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