Yrjö Lindegren

The tower of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren (born August 13, 1900 in Tampere , Russian Empire , † November 12, 1952 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect.

Life

In 1925 Lindegren graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology with a degree in architecture and founded his own architectural office.

Together with Toivo Jäntti , Lindegren designed the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in the 1930s for the 1940 Olympic bid . The Olympic Games were then awarded to Tokyo, but the Helsinki stadium was built anyway and inaugurated in 1938. In 1938 the Games were moved from Tokyo to Helsinki before being canceled altogether after the outbreak of World War II. It was not until the Olympic Games in 1952 that the stadium was actually used as an Olympic stadium. Lindegren had already been an Olympic champion himself. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London , his design for an athletics stadium in Varkaus was awarded the gold medal in the urban design category as part of the art competitions . In 1937 Lindegren had already won the Grand Prix for Architecture at the World Exhibition in Paris.

In the 1940s, Lindegren worked with Alvar Aalto and Viljo Revell on plans to rebuild Finland after World War II.

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .

Web links

Commons : Yrjö Lindegren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Architecture Museum (Finnish)