Kaija Siren
Finnish architect
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| Intro | Finnish architect | ||||
| A.K.A. | Katri Anna-Maija Helena Siren Katri Anna-Maija Helena Tuominen Kaija Tuominen | ||||
| A.K.A. | Katri Anna-Maija Helena Siren Katri Anna-Maija Helena Tuominen Kaija Tuominen | ||||
| Places | Finland | ||||
| was | Architect | ||||
| Work field | Engineering | ||||
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| Birth | 23 October 1920, Kotka, Kymenlaakso, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland | ||||
| Death | 15 January 2001Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency (aged 80 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Scorpio | ||||
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The details
Biography
Katri (Kaija) Anna-Maija Helena Siren (née Tuominen; October 23, 1920 in Kotka – January 15, 2001) was a Finnish architect married to another Finnish architect, Heikki Siren.
Kaija Siren graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1948. She and her husband Heikki Siren set up their own architectural office in 1949. The Sirens worked together as architects their entire life. The Otaniemi Chapel is noted for its delicate balance between features of Finnish rural architecture and a modernism, influenced by Alvar Aalto's redbrick period of the 1950s. Their later work is noted for its monumentality.
She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
Major works
- 1954 Finnish National Theatre Small Stage, Helsinki, Finland
- 1956 Otaniemi Chapel, Espoo, Finland
- 1961 Orivesi Church, Orivesi, Finland
- 1965 Kallio Municipal Offices, Helsinki, Finland
- 1968 Ympyrätalo, Helsinki, Finland
- 1970 Lauttasaari School, Helsinki, Finland
- 1973 Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria
- 1982 Graniittitalo, Helsinki, Finland
- 1983 The Conference Palace in Baghdad, Iraq
Gallery of selected major works
National Theatre extension, Helsinki (1954)
Otaniemi Chapel, Espoo (1954–57)
Orivesi Church, Orivesi (1961)
Kallio Municipal Offices, Helsinki (1965)
Ympyrätalo, Helsinki (1968)
Lauttasaari School, Helsinki (1970)
Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria (1973)
Graniittitalo, Helsinki (1982)
Conference Palace, Baghdad (1983)