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Alexandra Lange | Essays

Reciting Modernist Architects

unhappyhipsters: She hated it when Daddy made her recite modernist architects — alphabetically, starting with Aalto and ending with Yamasaki — for his friends. (Photo: Ye Rin Mok; Dwell)

OK, this is funny. Especially since our (late) fish were Eero and Isamu.

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