Abstract

Protection of twentieth century architectural heritage is recent world wide concern. This paper concerns the cases in Finland, one of the leading countries in this matter, and especially the heritage of Alvar Aalto, the architect. First, this article introduces the interest for twentieth century heritage in Finland. Second, it researches for the conservation of Alvar Aalto's heritage in the Finnish architectural review “Arkkitehti”. So the paper covers also the activity of Alvar Aalto Foundation, the practical cases of restoration of Finlandia Hall, one of his masterpieces and also international project of restoration of Library of Viipuri, Russia.

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