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Name
  
Kaija Siren


Role
  
Architect

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Died
  
January 15, 2001, Helsinki, Finland

Children
  
Hannu Siren, Jukka Siren, Kirsi Siren

Similar People
  
Heikki Siren, Onni Tarjanne, Anton Bruckner

Otaniemi chapel heikki and kaija siren


Katri (Kaija) Anna-Maija Helena Siren (née Tuominen; October 23, 1920 in Kotka – January 15, 2001) was a Finnish architect married to another Finnish architect, Heikki Siren.

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Kaija Siren graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1948. She and her husband Heikki Siren set up their own architectural office in 1949. The Sirens worked together as architects their entire life. The Otaniemi Chapel is noted for its delicate balance between features of Finnish rural architecture and a modernism, influenced by Alvar Aalto's redbrick period of the 1950s. Their later work is noted for its monumentality.

She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.

Major works

  • 1954 Finnish National Theatre Small Stage, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1956 Otaniemi Chapel, Espoo, Finland
  • 1961 Orivesi Church, Orivesi, Finland
  • 1965 Kallio Municipal Offices, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1968 Ympyrätalo, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1970 Lauttasaari School, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1973 Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria
  • 1982 Graniittitalo, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1983 The Conference Palace in Baghdad, Iraq
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