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Viipuri

Finnish name of Vyborg, a port and naval base formerly in Finland but in Russia since 1945.
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initiated in 2000, takes as its starting point that city's municipal library, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1927 and completed in 1935, symbolizing the modernist aspirations of a newly independent Finnish state (Vyborg, then Finland's second largest city, was called Viipuri at the time, changing names when annexed by the Soviets in 1944).
1000 words: Liisa Roberts; Talks about what's the time in Vyborg? by Sundell, Margaret / Artforum International
Wright is represented by 'the purest Usonian' house, the Rosenbaum of 1939, and Aalto by the Viipuri Library.
Modern Architecture through Case Studies. (Case Study Approach) by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy / The Architectural Review
The international architectural community has for a long time been worried about the fate of Aalto's Viipuri library.
AALTO IN RUSSIA by DAVEY, PETER / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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