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Architecture Firms Of Finland
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 {{European architects, state=collapsed * Finnish Architects An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to ... [...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 ''architectus'', which derives from the Greek (''arkhi-'', chief + ''tekton'', builder), i.e., chief builder. The professional requirements for architects vary from place to place. An architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus the architect must undergo specialized 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto-Veikko Luukkonen
Risto-Veikko Luukkonen (25 June 1902, Mikkeli – 7 September 1972, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. He is best known for designing the Töölö Sports Hall and the Olympia Terminal in Helsinki together with Aarne Hytönen, both of which are listed by Docomomo (a global organization preserving modernist architecture) as significant examples of modern architecture in Finland. Works * Töölö Sports Hall, Helsinki (1935) – together with Aarne Hytönen * Finnish pavilion at the Brussels International Exposition (1935) – together with Aarne Hytönen * Suomi-yhtiö office building, Helsinki (1938) – together with Aarne Hytönen * Turku Concert Hall (1952) * Olympia Terminal, Helsinki (1953) – together with Aarne Hytönen * Valkeakoski Town Hall (1955) – together with Aarne Hytönen * Turku City Theatre (1962) – together with Helmer Stenroos * Kuopio City Theatre Kuopio (, ) is a Finnish city and municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia. It has a populat ... [...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 (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ..., 1983 References Further reading * Bruun, Erik & Popovits, Sara (eds.): ''Kaija + Heikki Siren: Architects – Architekten – Architectes.'' Otava: Helsinki, 1977. External links Museum ... [...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 ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ... 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. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish-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 city- ... [...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 noted for his wide-ranging array of designs for buildings and monuments. Saarinen is best known for designing the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) in New York City, and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. Early life and education Eero Saarinen was born in Hvitträsk on August 20, 1910, to Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday. They immigrated 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 relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, and became good f ... [...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 Helsinki University of Technology, completing his studies in 1951. Aarno Ruusuvuori was one of the central architects in Finland during the 1960s, well known for designing modern buildings, often using exposed concrete, often in a Brutalist style. His best-known works are the Weilin & Göös Print Works in Espoo (1964–66) and the Hyvinkää Church (1961). Ruusuvuori courted much controversy during the early 1970s with his ambitious plans for the modernisation of the Helsinki City Hall in the very centre of Helsinki. The City Hall takes up an entire city block, consisting mostly of several buildings built in the neo-classical style, including buildings designed by C.L. Engel. Ruusuvuori preserved the main festival hall, but demolished many of the interiors, preserving only their facades. This saga, t ... [...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 (Industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raili Pietilä
Raili is a Finnish feminine given name that may refer to *Raili Halttu (1909–2006), Finnish sprint runner *Raili Hoviniemi (born 1936), Finnish Olympic gymnast *Raili Kauppi (1920–1995), Finnish philosopher * Raili Pietilä (1926–2021), Finnish architect *Raili Riuttala (born 1933), Finnish swimmer *Raili Sallinen Raili Sallinen (born 30 July 1938) is a Finnish ski orienteering competitor. At the first World Ski Orienteering Championships in 1975 held in Finland she won a gold medal with the Finnish relay team, together with Aila Flöjt and Sinikka Ku ..., Finnish ski orienteering competitor {{Given name Finnish feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...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 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhani Pallasmaa
Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa (born 14 September 1936 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a Finnish architect and former professor of architecture and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology. Among the many academic and civic positions he has held are those of Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture 1978–1983, and head of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. He established his own architect's office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in 1983 in Helsinki. From 2001 to 2003, he was Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and in 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from that university. In 2010–2011, Pallasmaa served as Plym Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and in 2012-2013 he was scholar in residence at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin. Pallasmaa has also lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. His exhibitions of Finnish architecture, plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
