Alvar Aalto's human modernism / Winfried Nerdinger -- The many faces of Alvar Aalto / Göran Schildt -- Alvar Aalto and the city / Riitta Nikula -- Alvar Aalto and the beauty of the house / Markku Lahti -- Between nature and culture: reflections on the Villa Mairea / Richard Weston -- Alvar Aalto and the United States / Elina Standertskjöld -- Alvar Aalto and Sweden / Eva Rudberg -- Alvar Aalto in Vienna / Friedrich Achleitner -- Alvar Aalto and Switzerland / Bruno Maurer and Arthur Rüegg -- Alvar Aalto in Wolfsburg / Reinhard Roseneck -- Learning from the forest apes: Alvar Aalto's influence on North German architecture / Ulrich Höhns