Ceiling in the Lecture HallThe Ceiling in the Lecture Hall of the Viipuri Library is a hallmark of Alvar Aalto design. Elements shown for the first time here would appear again in later in his designs. The imediately recognizeable intervention was intended to carry sound in the long hall as seen in this diagramatic sketch below.

VIIPURI LIBRA

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LVAR A

ALTO

Viipuri, Russia | 1934

Kayla Cohen and Jaewoo Lee

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Ceiling Details