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 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 Pietil ...

; 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 Pietilä (born 1963), is also a qualified architect.

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