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Finnish Architects
The following is a list of notable architects from Finland. A–M * Aino Aalto * Alvar Aalto * Waldemar Aspelin * Pauli E. Blomstedt * Erik Bryggman * Marco Casagrande * Hilding Ekelund * Aarne Ervi * Kristian Gullichsen * Mikko Heikkinen * Vilhelm Helander * Signe Hornborg * Aarne Hytönen * Markku Komonen * Juha Leiviskä * Risto-Veikko Luukkonen * Rainer Mahlamäki N–Z * Usko Nyström * Simo Paavilainen * Juhani Pallasmaa * Timo Penttilä * Raili Pietilä * Reima Pietilä * Viljo Revell * Aarno Ruusuvuori * Eero Saarinen * Eliel Saarinen * Ebba-Stina Schalin-Hult * Heikki Siren * J. S. Sirén * Kaija Siren * Lars Sonck * Matti Suuronen * Jaakko Tähtinen * Einari Teräsvirta * Martti Välikangas * Waldemar Wilenius See also * List of architects * List of Finns {{DEFAULTSORT:Finnish architects * Finnish Architects An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the term architect derives from the Latin , which derives from the Greek (''-'', chief + , builder), i.e., chief builder. The professional requirements for architects vary from location to location. An architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus the architect must undergo specialised training consisting of advanced education and a ''practicum'' (or internship) for practical experience to earn a Occupational licensing, license to practice architecture. Practical, technical, and academic requirements for becoming an architect vary by jurisdiction though the formal study of architecture in academic institutions has played a pivotal role in the development of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Mahlamäki
Rainer Mahlamäki (born 12 June 1956) is a Finnish architect, president of the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) from 2007 to 2011, Professor of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Oulu, and joint partner with Ilmari Lahdelma of the Helsinki-based architecture firm Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, one of the most prolific such firms in Finland. A significant part of their work started as entries in architectural competitions, in which they have received 35 first prizes (and 59 other prizes). Mahlamäki studied architecture at the Tampere University of Technology, and was awarded the Master of Science in Architecture in 1987. He, along with Lahdelma and 6 others, was a partner in the architecture firm 8 Studio from 1986 to 1993. From 1992 he together with Lahdelma and architect Mikko Kaira founded Kaira-Lahdelma-Mahlamäki Architecture, and from 1997 Mahlamäki and Lahdelma have been in partnership in the firm Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. Mahlamäki was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaija Siren
Katri (Kaija) Anna-Maija Helena Siren (née Tuominen; October 23, 1920 – January 15, 2001) was a Finnish architect. She graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1948. Siren designed most of her works together with her spouse to another Finnish architect, Heikki Siren. Siren was born in Kotka. She and her husband Heikki Siren set up their own architectural office in 1949. The Sirens worked together as architects their entire life. The Otaniemi Chapel is noted for its delicate balance between features of Finnish rural architecture and a modernism, influenced by Alvar Aalto's redbrick period of the 1950s. Their later work is noted for its monumentality. She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. Major works * 1954 Finnish National Theatre Small Stage, Helsinki, Finland * 1956 Otaniemi Chapel, Espoo, Finland * 1961 Orivesi Church, Orivesi, Finland * 1965 Kallio Municipal Offices, Helsinki, Finland * 1968 Ympyrätalo, Helsinki, Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heikki Siren
Heikki Siren (5 October 1918 in Helsinki – 25 February 2013 in Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1946 as a student of his father J. S. Sirén. Heikki Siren designed most of his works together with his spouse Kaija Siren. Famous works * Finnish National Theatre Small Stage, Helsinki, 1954 * Otaniemi Chapel, Espoo, 1956 *Kallio Municipal Offices, Helsinki, 1965 * Ympyrätalo, Helsinki, 1968 * Brucknerhaus, Linz, 1973 * Graniittitalo, Helsinki, 1982 * Baghdad Convention Center, Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ..., 1983 References Further reading * Bruun, Erik & Popovits, Sara (eds.): ''Kaija + Heikki Siren: Architects – Architekten – Architectes.'' Otava: Helsinki, 1977. External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebba-Stina Schalin-Hult
Ebba-Stina Arnoldsdotter Schalin-Hult (December 22, 1913 – October 3, 1999) was a Finnish- Swedish architect. From 1942 she was married to army commander Bjorn Halt. Life and works Schalin-Hult's parents were Arnold Schalin and Verna Andersen. She matriculated from high school in 1931, graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1940 and studied at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology (1943–44). From 1938 she worked at the Helsinki Building Board, from 1940 at the Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ... City Planning Office, from 1943 at the Stockholm County Architect's Office, from 1949 as an inspector at the Swedish Building Agency in Stockholm, and from 1952 as an architect in Stockholm's regional planning. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish and American Architecture, architect known for his work with Art Nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. He was also the father of famed architect Eero Saarinen. Life and work in Finland Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology. From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen. His first major work with the firm, the Finnish pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (1900), Paris 1900 World Fair, exhibited an extraordinary convergence of stylistic influences: Finnish wooden architecture, the British Gothic Revival, and the Jugendstil. Saarinen's early manner was later christened the Finnish National Romantic Style, National Romanticism and culminated in the Helsinki Central railway station (designed 1904, constructed 1910–14). From 1910 to 1915 he worked on the extensive ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center; and the Gateway Arch. He was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. Early life and education Eero Saarinen was born in Hvitträsk, Finland (then an autonomous state in the Russian Empire) on August 20, 1910, to Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday. They migrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father taught and was dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. He had a close relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarno Ruusuvuori
Aarno Emil Ruusuvuori (14 January 1925, Kuopio – 22 February 1992, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect, professor and director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. He studied at the Helsinki University of Technology, completing his studies in 1951. Ruusuvuori was one of the most renowned architects in Finland during the 1960s, well known for designing modernist buildings, often using exposed concrete, often in the brutalist style. His best-known works are the Tapiola Church and the Weilin & Göös Print Works in Espoo (1964–66) and the Hyvinkää Church (1961). Ruusuvuori created much controversy during the early 1970s with his ambitious plans for the modernisation of the Helsinki City Hall in the very centre of Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viljo Revell
Viljo Gabriel Revell (25 January 1910 – 8 November 1964) was a Finnish architect of the functionalist school. In Finland he is best known for the design of the Lasipalatsi ("Glass Palace") and Palace Hotel, both in Helsinki. Internationally, Revell is best known for designing the New City Hall of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Life and career Revell, originally spelt ''Rewell'', was born in Vaasa in 1910, and graduated from Vaasan Lyseo in 1928. He graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1937. He made his architectural breakthrough already the year he graduated when he, together with fellow students Heimo Riihimäki and Niilo Kokko, won the architectural competition for the design of the Lasipalatsi, which had originally been intended as a temporary building comprising shops, restaurant and cinema, but which became one of the landmarks of Finnish "white functionalist" architecture. His next major work was the so-called Teollisuuskeskus (Industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reima Pietilä
Frans Reima Ilmari Pietilä (25 August 1923 – 26 August 1993) was a Finnish architect and theorist. He did most of his work together with his wife Raili Pietilä; after 1963 all their works were officially attributed to "Raili and Reima Pietilä". Reima Pietilä was a professor of architecture at the University of Oulu from 1973 to 1979. Life Reima Pietilä was born in Turku, Finland. His father, Frans Viktor Pietilä, was a property owner and his mother, Ida Maria Lehtinen was a housewife. His parents had met each other in the US, when his mother was working as a domestic servant. He had an older sister, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, who was the partner of the author Tove Jansson. Reima Pietilä attended school in Turku, where he was a school friend of Mauno Koivisto, who would later become the President of Finland. Pietilä graduated in architecture 1953 at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). Reima and Raili commenced their collaboration in 1960 creating the office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raili Pietilä
Raili Inkeri Marjatta Pietilä (née Paatelainen, 15 August 1926 – 16 May 2021) was a Finnish architect. She did most of her work together with her husband Reima Pietilä; after 1963 all their works were officially attributed to "Raili and Reima Pietilä". Raili Paatelainen graduated in architecture 1956 at the Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; ; , HUT in international usage) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and it was one of the three universities from which the modern d .... In 1949–1951 she worked for architect and town planner Olli Kivinen and 1959–1960 for architect Olaf Küttner. Reima and Raili commenced their collaboration in 1960 creating the office ''Reima Pietilä and Raili Paatelainen'', renamed in 1975 to ''Raili and Reima Pietilä architects''. Reima Pietilä and Raili Paatelainen were married in 1963. Their daughter and only child Annukka P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Penttilä
Timo Jussi Penttilä (16 March 1931 – 25 February 2011) was one of Finland's most important modernist architects and was for over 15 years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. He is most renowned for the design of the Helsinki City Theatre (1961–67). Early life and education Timo Jussi Penttilä was born 16 March 1931 in Tampere to Arvo Mikko Penttilä and Ester Elviira Matinheimo. His father was agronomist and acted as a supervisor improving cattle in the country. Penttilä graduated from Tampere secondary school in 1950 and went on to study architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1956. Career In 1957–1959 he worked for architect Aarne Ervi before founding his own office. His breakthrough work was Sampola House, the Tampere Adult Education Centre, which Penttilä designed together with Kari Virta in 1958 and which was completed in 1960. The following year, at the age of 30, Penttilä won the architecture competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
