KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark 1959–1962: Community Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany 1959–1962: Church of the Holy Ghost (Heilig-Geist-Gemeindezentrum), Wolfsburg, Germany 1959–1962: Enso-Gutzeit headquarters, Helsinki, Finland 1961–1975: Lappia Hall performing arts and conference venue, Rovaniemi, Finland; part of the city's 'Aalto Centre' 1962: Aalto-Hochhaus, Bremen, Germany 1964–1965: Kaufmann Conference Center at the Institute of International Education, New York City, U.S. 1965: Rovaniemi library, Rovaniemi, Finland 1962–1971: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland 1963–1968: Church of St Stephen (Stephanus Kirche), Detmerode, Wolfsburg, Germany 1963–1965: Building for Västmanland-Dala nation, Uppsala, Sweden 1967–1970: Library at the Mount Angel Abbey, St. Benedict, Salem, Oregon, U.S. 1965–1968: Nordic House, Reykjavík, Iceland 1966: Church of the Assumption of Mary, Riola di Vergato, Italy (built 1975–1978) 1973: Alvar Aalto Museum, a.k.a. Taidemuseo, Jyväskylä, Finland 1970–1973: Sähkötalo, Helsinki, Finland 1978 (completed): Ristinkirkko, Lahti, Finland 1959–1988: Essen opera house, Essen, Germany 1986: Rovaniemi city hall, Rovaniemi, Finland Furniture and glassware Chairs 1932: Paimio Chair 1933: Model 60 stacking stool 1933: Four-legged Stool E60 1935–36: Armchair 404 (a/k/a/ Zebra Tank Chair) 1939: Armchair 406 Lamps 1954: Floor lamp A805 1959: Floor lamp A810 Vases 1936: Aalto Vase Quotations "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper." Alvar Aalto, Sketches, 1978, 104. "We should work for simple, good, undecorated things...things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street." Alvar Aalto, speech in London 1957. "It’s not an art to take and copy everything from tradition or past. It’s necessary to take the material and energy from nature and respond with the work of art, bringing your own psychical energy into it. We are prone to take everything from nature without giving anything in return. That’s not good – it can take a revenge on us.” Critique of Aalto's architecture As mentioned above, Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition (1949), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier. In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that "Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes." More recently, however, some architecture critics