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Mattias Agabus
Mattias Agabus (born 14 September 1977) is an Estonian architect. He studied in the Estonian Academy of Arts in the department of architecture and city planning, graduating from the academy in 2001. Mattias Agabus is a member of the Union of Est ...
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Helmut Ajango
Helmut "Mike" Ajango (November 30, 1931 – November 15, 2013) was an Estonian-born architect based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in the United States.Arnold Alas
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Dmitri Bruns
Dmitri Bruns (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Брунс, ''Dmitry Vladimirovich Bruns''; lv, Dmitrijs Brūns; 11 January 1929 – 21 March 2020) was a Latvia-born Soviet and Estonian architect and architecture theorist of Rus ...
Eero Endjärv
Eero Endjärv (born 24 January 1973 in Tallinn) is an Estonian architect.
From 1988 to 1991, he studied in the . From 1991 to 1995, he studied in the Tallinn Technical University. From 1995, he studied in the Estonian Academy of Arts in the depa ...
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Hanno Grossschmidt
Hanno Grossschmidt (born 7 October 1973) is an Estonian architect.
From 1980 to 1991, Hanno Grossschmidt studied in the 7th Secondary School of Tallinn. From 1991 to 1993, Hanno Grossschmidt briefly studied in the Tallinn University of Technol ...
Tomomi Hayashi
Tomomi Hayashi (林 知充、born February 1, 1971, in Toyama, Japan) is a Japanese- Estonian architect.
From 1990 to 1994 Tomomi Hayashi studied in the Yokohama National University (横浜国立大学 ''Yokohama Kokuritsu Daigaku'') in the depa ...
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Georg Hellat
Georg Hellat (3 March 1870, Puka, Governorate of Livonia – 28 August 1943, Tallinn, Generalbezirk Estland) was an Estonian architect.
His most known masterpiece is the building of the Estonian Students' Society
The Estonian Students' So ...
Peep Jänes
Peep Jänes (born 26 December 1936 in Rakvere, Estonia) is an Estonian 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 ...
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Herbert Johanson
Herbert Voldemar Johanson (10 September 1884 in Haljala, Estonia – 24 November 1964 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was an Estonian architect.
His notable works include:
*Building of the Parliament of Estonia, Riigikogu in Toompea Castle; 1920 with E ...
Raine Karp
Raine Karp (born 23 July 1939) is an Estonian architect.
Raine Karp was born in Tallinn. He studied construction at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn Polytechnic Institute (TPI) for two years (1957-1959) and went to study architecture ...
Tõnis Kimmel
Tõnis Kimmel (born 22 January 1977 in Tallinn) is an Estonian architect.
From 1984 to 1992 Tõnis Kimmel studied in the 7th Secondary School of Tallinn (today's Tallinn English College) and from 1992 to 1995 in the King Gustav Adolf's Gramma ...
August Komendant
August Eduard Komendant (October 2, 1906 – September 14, 1992) was an Estonian and American structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal con ...
Alar Kotli
Alar Kotli (27 August 1904 in Väike-Maarja - 4 October 1963 in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school ''Pallas'' in Tartu during 1922-1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the Univ ...
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Raivo Kotov
Raivo Kotov (born 11 October 1976 in Viljandi) is a notable Estonian architect.
From 1995 to 2000 Raivo Kotov studied in the Department of Architecture and City Planning of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Raivo Kotov works in the architectural b ...
Vilen Künnapu
Vilen Künnapu (born 30 June 1948) is one of the most important Estonian architects of the last three decades, among the first postmodernist theoreticians and architects in the 1970s.
He has worked on various buildings in Estonia and abroad.
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Edgar Johan Kuusik
Edgar Johan Kuusik (22 February 1888 in Valgjärve, Estonia – 3 August 1974 in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect (mostly freelance) and furniture and interior designer.
Biography
Kuusik was born in Võrumaa, in Pikavärve mansion's masters ...
Leonhard Lapin
Leonhard Lapin (29 December 1947 – 28 February 2022), also known under the pseudonym Albert Trapeež, was an Estonian architect, artist, architecture historian, and poet.
Biography
Emeritus Professor at Estonian Academy of Arts, Lapin was a ...
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Elmar Lohk
Elmar Lohk (15 June 1901 – 11 February 1963) was an Estonian architect. Many of his buildings in Tallinn are now valued as great examples of 1930s architecture, for example, the prominent Scandic Hotel Palace on Freedom Square. His creation c ...
Ra Luhse
Ra Luhse (born August 30, 1964, in Pärnu) is an Estonians, Estonian architect.
He studied in the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture. He graduated from the institute in 1 ...
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Ülar Mark
Ülar Mark (born 12 February 1968) is an Estonian architect.
He graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Tallinn University of Art (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in 1995.
From 1999 to 2002 Ülar Mark worked as the chief archit ...
Urmas Muru
Urmas Muru (born 27 August 1961) is an Estonian architect and artist.
From 1968 to 1979, Urmas Muru studied in the 2nd Secondary School of Pärnu. From 1979 Urmas Muru studied in the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Aca ...
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Margit Mutso
Margit Mutso (born 11 February 1966) is an Estonian architect.
Margit Mutso was born in Tallinn. She studied in the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture. She graduated fr ...
Erika Nõva
Erika Nõva née Volberg (4 April 1905, Muuksi – 22 April 1987, Tallinn) was an Estonian architect, remembered mainly for her farmhouse designs. She was the first woman to graduate as an architect in Estonia.
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Nõva studied at the Tal ...
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Maarja Nummert
Maarja Nummert (born 24 April 1944, near Antsla) is an Estonian architect who has designed a number of school buildings. She has received several awards for her work, sometimes using wood for village schools such as the one in Hageri where some o ...
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Jüri Okas
Jüri Okas (born 26 August 1950 in Tallinn) is a notable Estonian architect, installation artist and printmaker.
From 1957 to 1968 Jüri Okas studied in the 46th Secondary School of Tallinn (today's Pelgulinna Gymnasium of Tallinn). From 1968 ...
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Ain Padrik
Ain Padrik (born 27 April 1947) is an Estonian architect.
Padrik graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts as an architect in 1971. He belonged to the group of young architects and artists called the Tallinn School, which was grouped from Tiit Kalju ...
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Eero Palm
Eero Palm (born 21 June 1974 in Tallinn) is an Estonian architect.
Palm studied in the Tallinn University of Applied Sciences in the department of architecture. He graduated from the university in 1996.
Eero Palm works in the architectural bur ...
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Arent Passer
Arent Passer (c. 1560 – 1637) was a stonemason and architect of Dutch origin. He was born in The Hague and worked in Tallinn from 1589 until his death. Arent Passer is buried in St. Olaf's church in Tallinn.
Best known artwork by Arent Passe ...
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Peeter Pere
Peeter Pere (born 15 June 1957 in Tartu) is a notable Estonian architect and artist.
From 1975 Peeter Pere studied in the National Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture. He grad ...
Uno Prii
Uno Prii (February 28, 1924 – November 27, 2000) was an Estonian-born Canadian architect. He designed approximately 250 buildings, many in Toronto, but also around southern Ontario and the United States.
Some of his best-known works are apartme ...
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Raivo Puusepp
Raivo Puusepp (born 21 March 1960) is an Estonian architect.
His notable works include:
*Main building of SEB in Tallinn
*Tartu Department Store ( et, Tartu Kaubamaja), Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern ...
Ilmar Reepalu
Ilmar Reepalu (born 11 October 1943) is an Estonian-born Swedish Social Democrat politician who was the 17th chairman of the municipal board in Malmö from 1994 to 2013.
After a professional life as an urban planner in Borås and Malmö, he bec ...
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Jacques Rosenbaum
Jacques Rosenbaum (full name: Jacques Gustav-Adolf Rosenbaum-Ehrenbush) (1 July 1878 in Haapsalu, Estonia, Russian Empire – 6 January 1944 in Berlin, Germany) was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. Between 1904–07 he served as muni ...
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Eugen Sacharias
Eugen Sacharias (21 April 1906 in Berlin, Germany – 13 March 2002 in Adelaide, Australia) was an Estonian architect. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1925 to 1931, after which he came to Tallinn to become one of the ...
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Mai Šein
Mai Šein (born 10 May 1946 in Räägi, Saaremaa) is an Estonian architect.
Mai Šein studied in the National Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture. She graduated from the institu ...
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Henno Sepmann
Henno Sepmann (12 February 1925 Tartu – 24 September 1985 Moscow) was an Estonian architect. Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 1996. Page 472
In 1952 he graduated from Tallinn ...
Olev Siinmaa
Olev Siinmaa (November 12, 1881 – March 29, 1948), was an Estonian architect who is perhaps best recalled for his work in the style coined "Pärnu Resort Functionalism".
Olev Siinmaa was born Oskar Siimann in Pärnu into a joinery shop ow ...
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Hilda Taba
Hilda Taba (7 December 1902 in Kooraste, Estonia – 6 July 1967 in San Francisco, California) was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of Kooraste, Estonia. Her m ...
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Elmar Tampõld
Elmar Tampõld (August 3, 1920 – March 7, 2013) was an
Peeter Tarvas
Peeter Tarvas (until 1940 Treumann; 6 January 1916, in Kuressaare – 23 March 1987, in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect and professor.Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 1996. Pa ...
Uno Tölpus
Uno Tölpus (14 August 1928 Kunda – 11 August 1964 Käsmu) was an Estonian architect. He was one of the most notable Estonian architects in 1950s. Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjas ...
Illimar Truverk
Illimar Truverk (born March 20, 1967, in Tallinn) is an Estonian architect.
Truverk studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts in the department of architecture and city planning, graduating in 2001. Since then he has worked for the architectural ...
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Tanel Tuhal
Tanel Tuhal (born 25 June 1967 in Pärnu) is a notable Estonian architect.
He graduated from the Department of Architecture of the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in 1992.
Tanel Tuhal works in the arch ...
Siiri Vallner
Siiri Vallner (born April 9, 1972) is an industrious Estonian architect. She works mostly in community projects, as well as in many competitions. She is a member of the Union of Estonian Architects.
Biography
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, she spen ...
August Volberg
August Volberg (18 December 1896 Muuksi, Harju County – 21 June 1982 Tallinn) was an Estonian architect and educator.Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 1996. Page 600
In 1927 h ...
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List of architects
The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, which point to an article in the English Wikipedia.
Early architects
* Aa ( Middle Kingdom), Egyptian
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List of Estonians
This is a list of notable Estonians.
Architects
* Andres Alver (born 1953)
*Dmitri Bruns (1929–2020)
* Karl Burman (1882–1965)
* Eugen Habermann (1884–1944)
*Georg Hellat (1870–1943)
*Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883)
* Erich Jacoby (1885 ...
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
Architects
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 h ...