Mart Port

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Mart Port (born January 4, 1922 in Pärnu , Estonia , † February 3, 2012 in Tallinn ) was a Soviet - Estonian architect.

Life

Hotel Viru , Tallinn

Mart Port was born in 1922 as the son of the Estonian botanist Jaan Port (1891–1950) and his wife Marta. During the Second World War he fought in the Red Army . After the war he studied architecture at the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute .

Mart Port worked for the state-owned Soviet architecture firm Eesti Projekt until 1990 , and from 1961 to 1989 as its chief architect. In addition, he was a lecturer at the Tallinn Art Academy from 1961 to 1992, from 1977 with the title of professor. From 1955 to 1979 Port was chairman of the Estonian SSR Architects' Association ( Estonian Eesti NSV Arhitektide Liit ). In 1972 he received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR and in 1978 the title of People's Architect of the Soviet Union .

Architectural work

Mart Port was primarily responsible for the general urban planning of Tallinn , Tartu and Viljandi and chief planner for the new districts Tallinn- Mustamäe , Tallinn- Väike-Õismäe , Tallinn- Lasnamäe , Tartu-Annelinn and Viljandi-Männimäe. In addition, he planned various types of buildings for the Soviet construction industry (apartments, schools, cultural centers, department stores, childcare facilities).

Well-known individual projects of Ports are the headquarters of the Communist Party of Estonia (together with Raine Karp and Olga Konchayeva , 1964–1968), the Tallinn Hotel Viru (together with Henno Sepmann , 1972) and numerous residential and industrial complexes ( Eesti Kaabel , 1961). Mart Port also designed the monumental monument to the Red Army in Tallinn- Maarjamäe ( Maarjamäe obelisk , 1960) on the shores of the Baltic Sea .

Publications (selection)

  • Arhitekti pilguga Inglismaal. Tallinn 1966
  • Nõukogude Eesti arhitektuur. Tallinn 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suri arhitekt Mart Port ( Postimees ), February 4, 2012, Estonian, viewed February 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 377
personal data
SURNAME Port, Mart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Estonian architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2012
Place of death Tallinn