The University of Jyväskylä campus is the largest concentration of Alvar Aalto's architecture anywhere in the world. Aalto designed the original campus buildings in the 1950s and continued adding to it through the 1970s, creating a remarkably coherent ensemble on the forested slopes west of the city centre. The main building, library, and several faculties are all his work.
Walking through the campus is an architectural education in itself — you can trace the development of Aalto's thinking from the rationalist clarity of the 1950s buildings to the more complex, expressive forms of his later work. The university is open to visitors, and the main building's atrium and public spaces can be entered freely. A self-guided tour brochure is available from the tourist office. The Alvar Aalto Museum is a short walk away and provides the biographical and theoretical context for what you see here.