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Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu; Swedish: Tekniska högskolan, HUT in international usage) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi , Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area , and it was one of the three universities from which the modern day Aalto University was founded.
Nyström studied architecture at the Polytechnical school (today Helsinki University of Technology) and graduated in 1876. He also spent a year studying in Vienna under Heinrich von Ferstel in 1878–79. He began work in the office of his former teacher, Frans Anatolius Sjöström, and took over Sjöström's firm in 1885. Already in 1879 he ...
1 Prior to 19th century. 2 19th century. 3 20th century. Toggle 20th century subsection. 3.1 1900s-1940s. 3.2 1950s-1990s. ... 1849 - Helsinki University of ...
The general waterworks in Helsinki were only built in the 1870s. [5]: 20–21 From September 1848 to June 1877 Domus Litonii hosted the Technical Real School of Helsinki, later renamed to the Polytechnic School, which was the predecessor of the Helsinki University of Technology. The school rented the entire first floor of the building and three ...
Usko Nyström was schooled in the city of Hämeenlinna before going on in 1880 to study first mathematics and then "humanities", among other things aesthetics, at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland (the precursor to the present-day University of Helsinki). However, in 1885 he switched to studying architecture at the Polytechnic ...
During the 19th century, Helsinki became the economic and cultural center of Finland; as elsewhere, technological advancements such as railroads and industrialization were key factors behind the city's growth. The first Helsinki railway station opened in 1862 with service to Hämeenlinna.
The first predecessor of the university, The Cathedral School of Åbo, was presumably founded in 1276 for education of boys to become servants of the Church.As the university was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) in Turku (Sw. Åbo), as the Åbo Kungliga Akademi (Latin: Regia Academia Aboensis), the senior part of the school formed the core of the new university, while ...
External influences, such as Renaissance humanism (c. mid-14th century), the discovery of the New World (1492), the Protestant Reformation (1517), the Age of Enlightenment (18th century), and the recurrence of political revolution, enhanced the importance of human rights and international law in the university curricula. In the 19th and 20th ...