Restoration of Aalto’s Viipuri Library
Funded by a Finnish entity and executed by a local team, the scientific restoration of this modern masterwork has made it possible to bring back the original design and materials of Alvar Aalto.
Funded by a Finnish entity and executed by a local team, the scientific restoration of this modern masterwork has made it possible to bring back the original design and materials of Alvar Aalto.
The protacted process that the development of the project for the municipal library of Viipuri involved reflects Alvar Aalto’s transition from classicism to the postulates of the Modern Movement, and subsequently to his abandonment of both. It could