Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
In more recent times, of equal significance worldwide as actual buildings designed by Finnish architects has been the architectural theory - and prolific amount of writing published in several different languages - by Finnish architect and theorist Juhani Pallasmaa, [101] with such books as The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses ...
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. [1] His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings.
Eero Saarinen (/ ˈ eɪ r oʊ ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n, ˈ ɛər oʊ-/, Finnish: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport ...
21st-century Finnish architects (6 P)-Architects from Helsinki (24 P) + Finnish women architects (24 P) A. Alvar Aalto (4 C, 9 P) U. Uno Ullberg (3 P)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (/ ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n /, Finnish: [ˈelie̯l ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish and American 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. [1] [2]
Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (born Aino Maria Mandelin; [1] 25 January 1894 – 13 January 1949) was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. [2] She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl of the design company Artek, collaborating on many its most well-known ...
Ullberg died in Helsinki in 1944 at the age of 65. His gravestone at Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki was designed by Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto. An exhibition of the life and works of Uno Ullberg, titled UNO ULLBERG – AN ARCHITECT FROM FINNISH VYBORG, was held at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, in the summer of ...