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Carl Ludvig Engel
b. Germany, 1778;
d. Finland, 1840.
Architect whose solemn scale and elegance, modesty without being plainness, influenced and defined the emerging sensibility within Finnish architecture. His early training was at the Bauakademie in Berlin before he moved to Tallinn in Estonia, where he worked as an architect from 1808 to 1814. His visit to Leningrad [...]

Lars Eliel Sonck
b. Kdlvid, 1870;
d. Helsinki, 1956.
Lars Eliel Sonck was a prominent and prolific figure in Finland’s anxious search for a national identity after the turn of the century. The rise of National Romanticism paralleled that of Jugendstil within continental Europe, and Sonck, along with Eliel Saarinen, Hermann Gesellius and Armas Lindgren, played [...]

Lluis Domenech Y Montaner
b. Barcelona, 1850;
d. Barcelona, 1923.
Spanish architect, historian and leading figure in the Catalan Modernismo movement. A contemporary of Gaudi, Domenech received his diploma from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid in 1873. The principles of Modernismo - a potent mixture of Art Nouveau, the Modern style, the Jugendstil and [...]