W o r k s P r o j e c t s C o n t a c t  
     
   

SIMO KARI PAAVILAINEN
 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born 1944 in Vaasa

Graduated from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Architecture in 1975

Started his own office along with his wife, architect Käpy Paavilainen, in 1977

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Dean of the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology since 2004

Professor in basics and theory of architecture at Helsinki University of Technology,
Department of Architecture since 1997

Visiting lecturer at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1982. Several lectures on own architecture and theory and on the classical architecture of the 1920´s in Nordic countries

Special teacher in the Department of History of Architecture (lectures from Egypt to the beginning of the 19th century) from 1979 to 1981

Teacher in the Department of the History of Architecture from 1976 to 1978

Assistant in the Department of History of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, in 1975

 

MEMBER OF EXPERT BODY

Expert opinion in the nomination for the chair of architecture in the University of Oulu in 2005

Expert opinion in nomination for the chair of architecture in Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm 2004

Expert opinion in the nomination for the chair of industrial design in the University of Oulu in 2003

Member of the Organising Committee for international symposium ”L´architecture et le sacre” in Paris 2003 and
in Helsinki 2003

Member of the Organising Committee for the International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture ”Universal versus Individual”, in Jyväskylä 2002

Member of the Organising Committee for the 8th International Alvar Aalto Symposium “architecture in the year zero”,
in Jyväskylä 2000

Expert in Kamppi design and tender competition in Helsinki 2000

Invited as an administrator for the Alvar Aalto Academy in 1989 by the Ministry of Education

Chairman of the Organising Committee for the 7th International Alvar Aalto Symposium “Matter and Mind in Architecture”, in Jyväskylä 1997

Invited to the jury of the 3rd International Biennale of Architecture Cracow  1989

 

TRUSTEE POSITIONS

Member in the State Commission for Architecture 1998-2003, chairman in 2001-2003

Member in the Board of Alvar Aalto Academy since 1999, chairman in 2001-2002

Representative of Finnish Association of Architects in the Board of Alvar Aalto Foundation since 1997

Chairman of the Research and Publication Committee of the Museum of Finnish Architecture from 1995

Member of the Editorial board of Arkkitehti - Finnish architectural review in 1991-92

Member of the Board of the Museum of Finnish Architecture from 1988 - 1999

Member of the Exhibition Committee of the Museum of Finnish Architecture in 1986-94

Member of the Representatives of the Museum of Finnish Architecture in 1983-84

Member of the Townscape Committee of Helsinki City in 1986-89

Deputy member of the Increased National Board of Public Building in 1985-88

  

MEMBER IN THE JURY OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS

Kuopio Cathedral congregation, the enlargement of the cathedral, invited competition, Kuopio 2004

The enlargement on Pirkkala municipality centre, invited town planning competition, Pirkkala 2003

New service centre in Mellunmäki, invited competition, Helsinki 2002

Vaasa travelling centre, invited competition, Vaasa 2001

Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, open international design competition, Jyväskylä 1997

Mellunkylä Fire station, invited competition, Helsinki 1997

Södertörns högskola, a new University campus next to Stockholm, national competition, Stockholm 1996

Vuotalo multipurpose house, invited competition, Helsinki 1996

New cemetery and surroundings, invited town planning competition, Kankaanpää 1995

The centre for changing exhibitions, open competition, Helsinki 1987

The enlargement of the National Museum, invited competition, Helsinki 1987

Laajasalo church and congregation centre, invited competition, Helsinki 1987

Renovation and reconstruction of the crownwork Ehrensvärd wings, open competition, Suomenlinna, Helsinki 1984

Kanta-Hämeen säästöpankki, renovation and enlargement of an old bank building, Hämeenlinna 1979

 

AWARDS

Glass Structure of the Year 2006, The Office building of the Local Government Pensions Institution, by the Finnish Flat Glass Association

Building of the Year 2001, The Tritonia Academic Library in Vaasa, by Senate Properties
(The government owned enterprise taking care of the properties of Finnish State) 

Honourable Mention in The interior design work of the year 2002, The Tritonia Academic Library in Vaasa,
by Finnish interior architects SIO, together with Simo Paavilainen and Lauri Olin 

The interior design work of the year 1998, The Embassy of Finland in Tallinn, by Finnish interior architects SIO, together with Simo Paavilainen and Lauri Olin 

Building of the Year 1994, Vaasa University, first building stage, by the Finnish National Board of Public Building 

Honourable Mention, Munkkiniemi Health Centre and Service Building,
by the Public Works Department of Helsinki City in 1992

State Award for Architecture and Community Planning, together with Simo Paavilainen in 1991

Awarded the prize for the furtherance of culture by Suomen Kulttuuriliitto (the Finnish Cultural League) in 1983

Awarded along with Simo Paavilainen the architectural prize by  "Tiili" – the professional magazine of the Finnish brick industry in 1983

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

Granted a three years´ scholarship for artists by the Finnish Government for 1986-88

Granted a scholarship for artists by the Finnish Government for 1976 and 1977.
The subject of the study was the classical architecture of the 1920´s in Finland

 

 EXHIBITIONS

The architect in charge of design for the exhibition entitled "Carl Ludvig Engel 1778-1840"

The architect in charge of design for a Scandinavian touring exhibition entitled "Nordisk Klassicism - Nordic Classicism 1910-1930", the editor of the exhibition catalogue and the writer of the texts concerning Finland, in 1982

 

LECTURES ABROAD

Lecture ”Contemporary Architecture in Finland”, Chalmers tekniska högskolan, Göteborg 2002

Lecture ”L´architecture en Finlande et le sacre” in ”L´architecture et le sacre”, Finlands Culture Institute in Paris 2001

Lecture ”Alvar Aalto – Modernist in Brick”, in the opening of the exhibition of ”Alvar Aalto and brick”,
Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de la República, Montevideo; Uruguay 2000

Lecture "Tre domande sullo spazio sacro" given in Accademia de architecture in Mendrisio in 1999, in the conference
"Lo spazio sacro nell´architettura mediovale e contemporanea

Lecture  "Learning from Rome in Nordic use" in Rome 1998, given in an international  conference
"Antico e Moderno, La transformazione architettoniche e urbane nelle cittá europee"

Lecture "Alvar Aalto - the modernist of brick", on the Alvar Aalto  conference in Pescara in 1998

Invited by The University of Waterloo, School on architecture in Canada to give a lecture in series "arriscraft" in 1998: "My practise - Finland and Rome"

Lecture "Viipuri Library - the competition entry" (by Alvar Aalto) at Art Academy in Stockholm 1996

Invited by Technische Universität Berlin / Fachbereich 8 Architektur to give a lecture in the series "Positionen" in 1992 :Our architecture in Finnish context

Invited by Escola d´Arquitectura de Barcelona to lead a design studio and give a lecture on his own work in 1990

Lecture on Nordic Classicism at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London 1988

Invited by Consejeria de Obras Publicas y Transportes y en su nombre el Director General de Arquitectura y Vivienda of Junta de Andalucia to give lectures on his own work in Seville and Malaga 1988

Invited to give a lecture on own works at Escola d´Arquitectura de Barcelona in 1987

Visiting critic at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, March 1986 (with lectures  "Nordic Classicism" and
"My Approach to Architecture")

Invited to give a lecture "My theory and practice" in Technische Hochschule Aachen  in 1985

Lecture "Vernacular features in the Classicism of the 1920´s" in Madrid 1983

 

 

WRITINGS AND ARTICLES

MAGAZINES  

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 3/2004
Valon ja äänen arkkitehti - Architect of light and sound, interview with Juha Leiviskä

Arkkitehti, finnish architectural review 4/2000
Kokovartalokuva Viron arkkitehtuuritsta 1900-luvun alusta, a critique on the books: Eesti XX Sajandi Ruum – Space in 20th Century and Eesti puitarhitektuur – Estonian Wooden Architecture.

Ehituskunst 18-19/1997, Estonian architectural review
Kiriku projekteerimine Soomes tänapäeval, Church design in contemporary Finland

Ptah, related issues in architecture and architectural heritage 2/1997
Jyväskylän liikuntatieteellinen tiedekunta kunnostuksen kourissa - University of Jyväskylä´s Faculty of Sport and A journal on research, conservation and health sciences building in grip of renevation 

4´33´´ Revista Internacional de Pensamiento y Arte Publicacion Tremestral 1/1995
Interview with Simo Paavilainen, Olari muestra nuestro interés por el paisaje, el terreno y la topografia / Olari shows our interest in the landscape, the terrain and the slope 

4´33´´ Revista Internacional de Pensamiento y Arte Publicacion Tremestral 1/1995
La biblioteca Viipuri, Participación en el concurso de1927 / Viipuri library, The 1927 competition entry 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 5-6/1994
Ajatuksia ja yhteyksiä - Thoughts and connections - the Arctic Center by Claus Bonderup 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 6/1991
Erik Bryggmannin syntymästä sata vuotta (100 years from the birth of Bryggman),
The exhibition of Erik Bryggman in the Museum of Finnish Architecture 

Takstooli, Building administrations staff magazine 3/1988
Julkinen rakennus kaupunkirakenteessa – kolme esimerkkiä (A public building in a city structure- three examples) 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 1/1987
Aineesta ja arkkitehtuurista - On matter and architecture 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 4/1986
Asplund – syntymästä sata vuotta - Hundred years from the birth of Asplund 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 4/1985
Jan & Jon and Thiis-Evensen, a critique on the book; Thomas Thiis-Evensen: The Postmodernists Jan&Jon 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 8/1983
Hilding Ekelund ja pohjoismainen klassisismi - Hilding Ekelund and Nordic Classicism 

Tiili, Finnish Brick Magazine 3/1983
Kotimaisuus 1920-luvun klassisismissa -
Vernacular Features in the Classicism of the 1920´s 

Arkkitehti, Finnish architectural review 5/1981
Stuart Wrede, Hakon Ahlberg ja  Gunnar Asplundin arkkitehtuuri -
Stuart Wrede, Hakon Ahlberg and the architecture of Gunnar Asplund 

Arkkitehti, finnish architectural review 1/1981
Martti Välikangas ja 1920-luvun klassisismi Käpylässä –
Martti Välikangas and the Classicism of the ´20s in Käpylä

a-lehti, arkkitehtiopiskelija, the magazine of students of architecture 2-3/1978
1920-luvun klassisismi –varjoko vain (The architecture of 1920´s – only a shadow?)

  

BOOKS

Alvar Aalto, modernista del mattone, Universitá degli Studi de Chieti ”Gabriele a´Annunzio”,Contributi 8/2003, La Giornata di Studio Alvar Aalto 1898-1998, Dipartimento di Scienze, Storia dell´Architettura, Restauro e Rappresenrazione, Pescara 2003

Puhutaan kaupungista – Talking about the city, Museum of the Finnish Architecture, Helsinki 2001,
Kampin kaupunkikuva – The urban image of Kamppi 

Alvar Aalto , The Brick, Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki 2001
Alvar Aalto – Modernist in Brick 

Antipasto Misto, Vilhelm Helander 60, Helsinki 2001
Arkkitehtuuri autonomisena taiteena (Architecture as an autonomous art), inauguration lecture 21.4.1998 at Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Architecture  

Matter and Mind in Architecture, the 7th International Alvar Aalto Symposium in Jyväskylä 1997,
Alvar Aalto Foundation; Hämeenlinna 2000, Foreword 

Nils Erik Wickberg 90, 10.9.1999, Rakennustaiteen seura, Helsinki 1999
Kaksi matkamuistoa (two memories from excusions)

New Finnish Architecture photographed by Jussi Tiainen, The Finnish Building Centre, Helsinki 1996
A great day for building, Der festliche Höhepunkt des Gebäudes, L´heure solennelle du batiment

Acanthus 1990, Paper - Architecture – Ruins, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Espoo 1990
Viipuri Library - The 1927 Competition Entry

Yksilöllisiä puutaloja, Jussi Vepsäläinen, Rakentajain kustannus Oy, Helsinki 1987, Villa Tuomaala

Asplund 1885 – 1940, Lectures and Briefings from the International Symposium on the Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund, The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm 1986,
Some Thoughts during the Symposium

The Impact of Tradition on Present Day Architecture,
Seminar on Architecture and Urban Planning in Finland, Finnish Association of Architects1983,
Vernacular Features in the Classicism of the 1920´s

Classicismo Nordico, Architettura nei paesi scandinavi 1910-1930, Electa Spa, Milano 1988
Radici dell´architettura moderna in Finlandia

Il Classicismo Nordico 1910-1930, Esposizione a Palazzo Barberini, Fratelli Palombi Editori, Rooma 1985
El Clasicismo Nordico en Finlandia
Classicismo Nordico 1910-1930, catalogo de la exposicion
Dirección General de Arquitectura y Vivienda M.O.P.U, Madrid 1983
El Clasicismo Nordico en Finlandia - Nordic Classicism in Finland

Nordisk Klassicism - Nordic Classicism 1910-1930, exhibition catalogue (editor),
Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki 1982

Nordisk Klassicism I Finland - Nordic Classicism in Finland

Abacus, yearbook 1979, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki 1979
1920-luvun klassismi ja klassillinen perinne Suomessa
Classicism of the 1920´s and the classical tradition in Finland