His Viipuri City Library of 1927-35, the Turun Sanomat building of 1928-30, for a newspaper in Turku, and the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium of 1929-33, were assured exercises in the new, white-walled, abstract aesthetic.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable

The Viipuri Library's suspended, undulating, acoustic wood ceiling and roof landscape of skylights not only reappeared in Aalto's own work over the next 40 years, they encouraged a concern for form and light in its purest aspects.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable