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(1) Pauli (Ernesti) Blomstedt
(b Jyväskylä, 1 Aug 1900; d Helsinki, 3 Nov 1936). On graduating from the University of Technology in Helsinki (1922), he worked in a number of offices, including that of his influential teacher, Armas Lindgren, and in the Helsinki City Building Office under the direction of Gunnar Taucher. Blomstedt’s influence in Helsinki is seen most clearly in the refined neo-classicism of the Workers’ College (1927) and the flats at Mäkelänkatu 37–43 (1924–6). In 1926 he set up his own office and immediately began to attract attention by winning prizes in architectural competitions. From these early commissions Blomstedt’s most important assistant was his wife, the architect Märta Blomstedt (1899–1982). Trips around Europe and study of the architectural theory of historical periods directed him away from the classicism that was then dominant throughout the Nordic countries. By winning competitions for new offices for the Liittopankki (Allied Bank) in 1926 and the Suomalainen Säästöpankki (Finnish Savings Bank) in 1928, he won further commissions. These two new banks in the centre of Helsinki (completed in 1930 and 1932) introduced a new American-influenced Modernism to Finland.
Part of the Blomstedt family
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