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(2) Aulis Blomstedt
(b Jyväskylä, 28 July 1906; d Espoo, 21 Dec 1979). Brother of (1) Pauli Blomstedt. After qualifying in 1930 at the Technical University, Helsinki, he entered several architectural competitions, but with little immediate success. From 1941 to 1945 he was editor-in-chief of Arkkitehti, the Finnish architectural review, and in 1948 he designed the Villa Salonen at Espoo. Around this time he was also researching industrially prefabricated cell construction systems in connection with post-war reconstruction. He also devised his own theoretical basis for proportion in architecture, which was first displayed at the Saimanhori Club Building (1950), Imatra, in groups of domestic buildings designed for artists. In the Kolmirinne group of ten flats (1954), Tapiola, he employed an innovative diagonal planning grid. He also produced experimental designs (1954) for an aluminium house.
Part of the Blomstedt family
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