"Dangerous liaisons. Preserving post-war modernism in city centers".
Conference,15-17 February 2001, Helsinki, Finland

What Tapiola was- and is- about

Timo Tuomi, Lic. Phil., Head of Research, Museum of Finnish Architecture

Tapiola Garden City, founded in 1952, remains a unique experiment in Finland - a community created through the joint efforts of a single landowner and civic bodies. From a very early stage, the press propagated the idea of Tapiola as a project where architects could freely experiment with their ideas. Although these experiments had to be carried out under economic and other post-war restrictions, and were to a large degree dictated by them, some of the most talented Finnish architects of the 1950´s were able to create significant innovations and one of the best residential environments of its day.