Mai Šein (born 10 May 1946 in

Räägi Räägi is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish Leisi Parish was a municipality in Saare County, Estonia. The parish did consist of one small ...

Saaremaa Saaremaa (; ) is the largest and most populous island in Estonia. Measuring , its population is 31,435 (as of January 2020). The main island of the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hi ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

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 h ...

. Mai Šein studied in the National Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's

Estonian Academy of Arts The Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonian language, Estonian: ''Eesti Kunstiakadeemia'', EKA) is the only public university in Estonia providing higher education in art, design, architecture, Media (communication), media, art history and conservation ...

) in the department of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

. She graduated from the institute in 1970. From 1970 to 1990, Mai Šein worked in the Tallinn office of the soviet design bureau Tsentrosojuz Projekt. Currently Mai Šein works in the architectural bureau Mai Šein OÜ. Notable works by Mai Šein are the Golf Club of Tallinn in

Niitvälja Niitvälja is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) The Baltic's first 18-hole golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball ...

, the building of the Energetics department of the

Tallinn Technical University Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; ) is the only technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administration and maritime affairs. TalT ...

, apartment building on Koidula Street and the terrace housing on the Sõpruse road. Mai Šein is a member of the

Union of Estonian Architects Union of Estonian Architects (or Estonian Association of Architects, EAA; ) organizes architects, landscape architects and architecture researchers. EAA re-established 27 June 1989. EAA is a legal successor of ''Estonian Association of Architec ...

Works

*Tallinn Golf Club in Niitvälja, 1998 (with Jaan Tiidemann) *Koidula border guard station *Energetics Department of the Tallinn Technical University, 2004 (with Andrus Padu) *Apartment building on Koidula Street (with Andrus Padu) *Terrace housing on Sõpruse Road (with Andrus Padu) *Saekoja eco-hotel in

Otepää Otepää (formerly Nuustaku) is a town in Valga County, southern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Otepää Parish. Otepää is a popular skiing resort, popularly known as the "winter capital" of Estonia (in contrast to the "summer ca ...

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Union of Estonian Architects, members
1946 births Living people People from Saaremaa Parish Estonian architects Estonian women architects Estonian Academy of Arts alumni {{Estonia-architect-stub