Contains: Alvar Aalto: modern architecture on another path The white table: an eternal return to the forest Mediterranean light and Arctic night Towards a natural functionalism: putting modernism in place At once champion and critic of modern architecture Experience as the measure: towards a life-enhancing modernism Setting an example: from forest clearing to urban space The human spirit and the line of the land Nemo Propheta in Patria: Finland in the long shadow After Aalto: the other tradition of modern architecture