The white period is also on display at the nearby Alvar Aalto Museum, which the architect completed a decade later.

BBC: An Alvar Aalto tour of Finland

Anyone who doubts that this has been a century of spectacular architectural achievement as well as radical technological change need only visit the Alvar Aalto show that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art here for evidence that shatters the myth that modern architecture failed.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable