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The Finnish Lutheran Church also became a key figure in architecture in the interim and post-war period by arranging with the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) architectural competitions for the design of new churches and cemeteries/cemetery chapels throughout the country, and significant war-time and post-war examples include: Turku ...
The following is a list of notable architects from Finland. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. 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 ...
Modernist architecture in Finland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Modernist architecture in Finland . See also: Category: Modernist architecture in Scandinavia
Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) was a Finnish architect, and one of the key figures of modernist architecture during the twentieth century. In addition to architecture, his oeuvre includes furniture, textiles and glassware.
Architecture is closer to music than to the visual arts. To qualify as architecture, buildings, together with their internal spaces and their details, must be an organic part of the environment, of its grand drama, of its movement and of its spatial sequences. To me, a building as it stands, "as a piece of architecture" is nothing.
Finnish architecture writers (11 P) 0–9. 20th-century architecture in Finland (5 C) 21st-century architecture in Finland (3 C) A. Finnish architects (7 C, 62 P) B.
The school of architecture, when part of Helsinki University of Technology, produced the foremost names in the history of modern Finnish architecture, most notably Signe Hornborg, Eliel Saarinen, Alvar Aalto – after whom the new university is named – Viljo Revell, Reima Pietilä, Timo Penttilä and Juhani Pallasmaa.
Pihlajamäki is an important site for modern Finnish architecture, and it is the first of Helsinki's suburbs built in the 1960s that was conserved en bloc with a town plan. [1] The architecture of the suburb is unassuming, but there is a distinct polarity in the buildings and surrounding scenery, which creates rich nuances.