Juha Ilmari Leiviska

Juha Ilmari Leiviskä (born March 17, 1936 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish architect .

Life

Juha Ilmari Leiviskä graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1963 . In 1967 he founded his own architecture office. In the same year Leiviskä received the Väinö Vähäkallio grant and in 1973 the state grant for artists. In 1978 he started sharing an office with Vilhelm Helander.

In 1982 Juha Ilmari Leiviskä received the State Prize for Architecture and Urban Planning. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm ( Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm ). In 1995 he received the Carlsberg Prize of the Carlsberg Foundation . In 2007 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

chosen projects

Building designed by Juha Ilmari Leiviskä (1991)

• Town hall in Kouvola (construction period 1964–1968 in collaboration with Bertel Saarnio)
• Parish hall and church in Nakkila (construction period 1968–1970)
• Airas house in Jollas (built 1971–1972)
• St. Thomas Church and parish hall in Oulu (built 1971–1975)
• Villa Heikinkallio in Lahti (built 1980–1982)
• Myyrmäki Church in Vantaa (built 1980–1984)
• Expansion of the Niuvanniemi Clinic in Kuopio (construction period 1980–1985)
• Church Hall in Kirkkonummi (1984)
• Auroranlinna Housing in Helsinki (construction period 1985–1990)
• German Embassy in Helsinki (1986–1993)
• Männistön Church in Kuopio (construction period 1986–1992)
• Villa Thoren-Söderström in Ekenäs (construction period 1987–1990)
• Cultural Center - Dar al-Kalima Academy, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine (construction time 2004)

Publications

• Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition . Spon Press, 1995
• Juha Leiviska . Museum of Finnish architecture, Helsinki, 1999
• Juha Leiviska. And the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture . John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Web links

• Office and residence of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Helsinki
• Juha Ilmari Leiviska. In: arch INFORM .