The good life: a good book, a coffee, and a train that is almost on time. The book is a really interesting series of interviews with people who worked in Alvar Aalto's studio from the 1950ies to the 70ies. It reveals what it was really like - the creative process, tensions, drinking, joking - that created such groundbreaking architecture. How good Europe would look if more had been adopted! But art can't be copied. Aalto regarded architecture as an applied art in service of social objectives.