Olev Siinmaa

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Olev Siinmaa (until 1936: Oskar Siimann ; also: Oskar Siiman ; born November 12, 1881 in Pärnu , Estonia ; † March 29, 1948 in Norrköping , Sweden ) was an Estonian architect. He was the founder of a style called "Pärnu bath functionalism".

Siinmaa was born in Pärnu as the son of a carpenter . He studied interior design in Wismar and Konstanz . In 1925 he was appointed city architect of Pärnu.

In 1930 his first functionalist building was built on Roosikrantsi Street in Tallinn .

His most famous legacy is the Pärnu Beach Hotel, which he designed together with Anton Soans and which was built between 1935 and 1937. The building has been described as the “flagship of a new functionalist architecture”. In 1938, Siinmaa and his colleague Alar Kotli applied to design the summer residence of the then Estonian President Konstantin Päts in Paslepa , western Estonia . Kotli designed the building's representative rooms, while Siinmaa was responsible for the president's office.

In 1944 Siinmaaa emigrated to Sweden, where he died in 1948.

In 1994 the beach hotel in Pärnu, after several years of dilapidation, was acquired by the Scandic Hotels chain , renovated and reopened as “Scandic Rannahotell”.

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SURNAME Siinmaa, Olev
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siimann, Oskar (name before 1936); Siiman. Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1948
Place of death Norrkoping