Juha Leiviska, Finnish Architecture Office News, Modern Finland Building Design Projects

Juha Leiviskä, Architect

Contemporary Finnish Architect Practice: Architecture Information + Design Studio

post updated 4 September 2024

Juha Leiviskä Architect News

14 + 13 Jan 2016

Buildings by Juha Leiviskä

Finnish architect and academician Juha Leiviskä will have his 80th birthday on the 17th of March.

photo under the Creative Commons license on Flickr by Georg Mayer

A map of his key works (excluding some private houses) put together by Lari Ala-Pöllänen Student of Architecture (BSc/MArch) and kindly shared with e-architect:

Website: Juha Leiviskä Works

Juha Leiviskä – Key Projects

Featured Buildings by Juha Leiviskä, alphabetical:

Church of the Good Shepherd, Helsinki, Finland

photo : wikimedia commons

Cultural centre – dar al-Kalima Academy, Bethlehem, West Bank / Palestine
Date built: 2004
Design: Juha Leiviskä with Bassem Khoury

Männistö Church in Kuopio, central Finland

photograph : Anni Vartola

Myyrmäki Church, Vantaa, northern Helsinki, Finland
1984

photo : wikimedia commons
Myrbacka kyrka, Strömfåravägen 1, 01600 Vanda, Finland
vantaanseurakunnat.fi
+358 9 8306429
Myyrmäki Church (Finnish: Myyrmäen kirkko) is a Lutheran church in the Myyrmäki neighborhood in the city of Vantaa, located near Louhela commuter train station.

Nakkila Parish Centre, near Pori, western Finland
1970

St.Thomas’s Church and Parish Center, Northern Ostrobothnia, Oulu, northwest Finland – on The Baltic

photo : wikimedia commons

Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
2005-
Architecture Competition winner 2003

More projects by Juha Leiviskä online soon

Wilhelm Helander Juha Leiviskä arkkitehdit SAFA avoin yhtiö
Architect
Address: Bangatan 1, 00120 Helsingfors, Finland
Phone: +358 9 630722

Juha Leiviskä Architect + Timo Penttilä Architect – Finnish Modernists

Location: Bangatan 1, 00120 Helsingfors, Finland, northeast Europe

Juha Leiviska Architect Practice Information

Juha Leiviskä arkkitehdit studio based in Finland

Juha Ilmari Leiviskä born in 1936 in Helsinki.

He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology

After qualifying as an architect in 1963 he established his own office in 1964; he also worked as a teaching assistant at Helsinki University of Technology.

Finnish Architects Studio

Here’s a rather good interview in English:
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Vallila_Library/Whats_going_on/A_thematic_discussion_with_academician_J(2625)
A thematic discussion with academician Juha Leiviskä | HelMet
www.helmet.fi
The Head of the Library, Harri Sahavirta, interviews academician Juha Leiviskä.

Another interview with him was published in the Architectural Research Quarterly, but doesn’t seem to be available online.

Männistön Pyhän Johanneksen Kirkko, Kuopio (Männistö Church), Finland:

photos under the Creative Commons license on Flickr by Georg Mayer

Architect Juha Leiviskä was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. In 1992 he was appointed as an ‘Artist Professor’ by the Finnish President.

Church of the Good Shepherd in Helsinki – aka Church of Pakila:
1960

photo : wikimedia commons
Hyvän Paimenen kirkko by Juha Leiviskä – also known as Pakilan kirkko

In 1994 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and awarded the Prince Eugen Medal the same year. He was awarded the prestigious Carlsberg Prize in architecture in 1995.

In 1997 Leiviskä followed Alvar Aalto and Reima Pietilä in becoming the architecture Member of the Academy of Finland.

In 2008 he was awarded the international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
source: wikipedia

Juha Leiviskä was one of my heroes as a teenager, I saw his work in the Architecture Review in the late 1980s.

Later, as an architecture student on my Degree course (Manchester School of Architecture) I gained a scholarship to study Finnish Contemporary Architecture. I spent two weeks hitchhiking around Finland in the Summer of 1990 to see his work and also Alvar Aalto’s.

Editor Adrian Welch, architect

Juha Leiviskä Architect