Gothenburg, and Professor Annemarie Adams, PhD, from McGill University, Mon-
treal, provided invaluable comments and suggestions, for which I am grateful.
A decisive factor for me being able to carry out research was being selected as a
research student to the national graduate school in architecture between 1999 and 2002
at Helsinki University of Technology. I was also able to attend the research seminar
in art history for a year at the University of Helsinki, thanks to the kind permission
of Professor Emerita Riitta Nikula, PhD, as well as the study circles on the history of
technology run by Karl-Eric Michelsen, PhD, and Ilkka Herlin, PhD. My work was
also funded at its initial stage by the Finnish Cultural Foundation with a one-year grant
and the Wihuri Foundation with a grant that allowed me to participate on a course on
the conservation of modern architecture.^7 Thanks to the travel grant awarded by HUT,
I was able to visit and study Zonnestraal Sanatorium in Hilversum, the Netherlands,
and to attend the docomomo seminar on colour in architecture held in Belgium. Since
2010, I have funded my research work myself. I have received support for the translation
and publication of my dissertation from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and
Architecture. Without the encouraging support of external funding, carrying out this
work would have been immeasurably more difficult.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to all those who have provided valuable
commentary on my work at the numerous seminars at the Department of Architecture
of the Aalto University, the Department of Architecture of the Oulu University of
Technology, Department of Architecture of the Tampere University of Technology,
the Nordic architectural researcher seminar in Oslo, Department of Philosophy of the
University of Gothenburg, Department of Art History of the University of Jyväskylä,
Department of Art History of the University of Helsinki, and the seminars of the
Aalto researcher network in 2011 and 2012.^8 Translator Tytti Laine has translated a
major part of the Finnish-language manuscript into English, and the English language
revision was conducted by Keith Baddeley. Architect Franz Betcke and translator Rose-
mary McKenzie have also translated parts of my work over the years. Editor Sanna
Tyyri-Pohjonen has managed my publication at Aalto ARTS Books publishers, and
graphic artist Annina Kivikari has created the visual design for my work. I would like to
thank my language professionals, editor and graphic artist for their valuable contribu-
tion to the completion of my work. Any inaccuracies or errors are my own.
The encouragement from my close friends has helped me keep the research project
alive alongside my other duties. I would like to express my special gratitude to my
mother Maija-Liisa Leppänen and my husband Sami Heikinheimo as well as my whole
family for all their material and mental support and their help in daily life. I dedicate my
dissertation to my children Juuso and Jenny.
7 Conservation of Modern Architecture MARC 99, organised in Helsinki in 1999 by ICCROM, docomomo and HUT.
8 The first seminar, held in Helsinki in 2011, was attended by Finnish Aalto scholars, while the second seminar,
which took place in Seinäjoki in 2012, was international. The seminars were organised on the initiative of Susanna
Pettersson, PhD, art historian and then Director of the Aalto Foundation.