Timo Penttila

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Timo Jussi Penttilä (born March 16, 1931 in Teisko in Tampere ; † February 25, 2011 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and urban planner .

Life

Timo Penttilä studied architecture at the Technical University in Helsinki from 1950 to 1956 . From 1959 to 1996 he had his own office with Heikki Saarela and Kari Lind and designed, among other things, the city ​​theater in Helsinki.

He taught at the Technical University in Helsinki from 1959 and was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968/69 . He was President of the Finnish Museum of Architecture from 1976 to 1980 . In 1978 he became a member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences.

In 1980, Penttilä was appointed to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and took over the master class from Roland Rainer . In 1998 he retired .

In 1969 he was awarded at the São Paulo Biennale . In 1976 he received the State Prize of the Republic of Finland.

Sampola Community College in Tampere

buildings

  • Sampola Adult Education Center in Tampere (1959–62)
  • City Theater in Helsinki (Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri) (1964-67)
  • Ratina Stadium in Tampere (1966)
  • Hanasari power plant in Helsinki (1976)
  • Headquarters of the DOM company in Brühl (1980)
  • Salmisaari B power plant in Helsinki (1984)
  • The Bruno-Marek-Hof , a communal residential building in Vienna, Gumpendorfer Strasse 40–44 (1986–1988)

literature

  • Timo Penttilä: Oikeat ja väärät arkkitehdit - 2000 vuotta arkkitehtuuriteoriaa. Gaudeamus, Helsinki, 2013.
  • Roger Connah (Ed.): The school of exile - Timo Penttilä for and against architecture theory. Datutop 33, Tampere, 2015.
  • 10 years master school for architecture Professor Timo Penttilä 1981-1991. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, 1991.

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personal data
SURNAME Penttila, Timo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penttila, Timo Jussi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Teisko in Tampere
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2011
Place of death Helsinki