Märta Blomstedt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish architect
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Place of Birth: Turku, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Märta Blomstedt
- Märta Blomstedt (1899–1982) was an architect and one of the driving forces of the Finnish functionalism movement.
- Partnering with her husband, Pauli E.
- Blomstedt, her first works were noted for their functional, rather than decorative appearance and settings in park-like environments.
- After her husband's death, initially she formed a firm with Matti Lampén to complete projects her husband and she had begun.
- Later, she and Lampén formed a firm designing their own creations.
- She designed all aspects of her buildings including the furnishings, demonstrated in one of Blomstedt & Lampén's most noted designs of the Hotel Aulanko.
- During the war, Blomstedt & Lampén mostly worked on renovation and restoration projects of existing buildings, but at the war's end, they returned to their own designs.
- In addition to buildings, they were responsible for the city plans for Kuusjärvi and the Oravikoski Mining Community and created both public and private buildings in each city as well.
- When Lampén died, Blomstedt formed a partnership with Olli Penttilä and continued to work into the 1970s.
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