Alvar Aalto vs. the modern movement

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The Alvar Aalto symposia are an ongoing series of public conversations amonginvited authorities on cultural movements, architecture, urban planning and design.This book on the 1st International Alvar Aalto Symposium was held at a time of utterconfusion in modern architecture, when, many believe, the field was in chaos. Muchof this compendium of symposium presentations focuses on the present state offunctionalism - in its broadest sense, modernism - and the life work of Alvar Aalto.