Finnish architects

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Marco Casagrande, Eliel Saarinen, Uno Ullberg, Juhani Pallasmaa, Hilding Ekelund, Sami Rintala, Juha Leiviskä, Reima and Raili Pietilä, Carl Ludvig Engel, Martti Välikangas, Kristian Gullichsen, Carl O. Nordling, Aino Aalto, Vilhelm Helander, Wivi Lönn, Simo Paavilainen, Aarne Ervi, Josef Stenbäck, Aarno Ruusuvuori, Toivo Tikkanen, Erik Bryggman, Gunnar Taucher, Rainer Mahlamäki, Armas Lindgren, Viljo Revell, Kristiina Lassus, Kari Asikainen, Yrjö Lindegren, Jukka Setälä, Johan Albrecht Ehrenström, Carl Axel Setterberg, Waldemar Wilenius, Eric Adlercreutz, Ilmari Niemeläinen, Hilda Hongell, Bruno Granholm, Lars Sonck, J. S. Sirén, Arto Sipinen, Thure Hellström, Elissa Aalto, Kaija Siren, Ville Hara, Frans Anatolius Sjöström, Pekka Vapaavuori, List of Finnish architects, Veikko Larkas, Mikko Heikkinen, Markku Komonen, Otto-Iivari Meurman. Excerpt: Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898, Kuortane ¿ May 11, 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he - together with his first wife Aino Aalto - would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä. Alvar and Elissa Aalto in the 1950s The signature of Alvar Aalto on the wall of Jyväskylä's theatre building. Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki (1954¿56) Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library in the 1930s.Alvar Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland. His father, Johan Henrik Aalto, was a Finnish-speaking land-surveyor and his mother, Selly (Selma) Matilda (née Hackstedt) was a postmistress. When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland. Aalto studied at the Jyväskylä Lyceum school, completing his basic education in 1916. In 1916 he then enrolled to study architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1921. In 1923 he returned to Jyväskylä, where he opened his first architectural office. Jyväskylä would become a notable city for his architecture, with more buildings designed by him than in any