The Building that Disappeared – the Viipuri Library by Alvar Aalto

Laura Berger

Youth chess club at the Viipuri Library auditorium during the late 1980s. Photo Jussi Rautsi.

Laura Berger's doctoral thesis (2018) traces the history of Viipuri Library designed by Alvar Aalto.

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