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- ↑ Jorma Mukala, "Connahin tikapuut – Connah's Ladder", Arkkitehti, 3/2006, p.83.
- ↑ Christer Bengs, "Who is the pig now? Roger Connah and the Piglet Years", Yhdyskuntasuunnitelu, 4/2007, pp. 68–70.
- ↑ Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics. Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 0300114281.
- ↑ Aino Niskanen, 'Foreword', in Hikes into Pietilä Terrain, Rakennustaiteen seura, Helsinki, 2005, ISBN 9789519833125. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism, Routledge, 2015. ISBN 1317007980.
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