Chapter 4 | ConclusionsIn my view, Alvar Aalto’s activities as the mediator of the international architec-
tural collective and Finnish society supports Karl-Erik Michelsen’s point regarding
the domesticators of technology. According to Michelsen’s observations, technology
transfer into Finland was not a national programme and instead the development was
in the hands of companies, and individuals working within them, to pursue their own
interests. These key groups of stakeholders wanted to bolster their own financial and
social status, and one way to achieve this was to be up-to-date with technological sys-
tems that were being developed in Western industrialised countries.^1009 Aalto’s drivers
were naturally not primarily financial but artistic.
1009 Michelsen 1999, pp. 163–164; Hughes 1983, pp. 1 –17.