About Arto Sipinen
Lived 1936 – 2017 (aged 81). Arto Sipinen was a Finnish architect.
Arto Sipinen (20 March 1936 – 23 December 2017) was a Finnish architect. He worked in the office of architects Alvar Aalto in 1959–61 and Viljo Revell in 1961–63. He founded his own architect's office in 1965. Sipinen has taught at Helsinki University of Technology Department of Architecture.
In 1970 Sipinen won the architectural competition for the design of a new campus at the University of Jyväskylä, his former employer Aalto having designed the first campus. Among Sipinen's other best known works are the cultural centres for the cities of Espoo, Mikkeli, Imatra and Kuusamo.
Sipinen's son Ari Sipinen is a practicing architect who has designed several refurbishments for his father's buildings, most notably the Jyväskylä University Library that won the 2022 Finlandia Prize for Architecture.
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Who was Arto Sipinen?
Finnish architect
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Arto Sipinen was born on 20 March 1936 in Helsinki.
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Arto Sipinen died on 23 December 2017 in Espoo, Espoo Hospital.
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Arto Sipinen was an architect.
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Arto Sipinen was Finnish.
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