Aulis blomstedt: Finnish architect and professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. He was a renowned modernist architect and architectural theoretician in the decades following the Second World War. You can download the presentation from here: http://destyy.com/whWuBZ Dont forget to Join our blog : https://architecture2018z.wixsite.com/architecturez/our-blog Yo can also visit our site: https://architecture2018z.wixsite.com/architecturez Dont forget to like our Facebook page also: https://web.facebook.com/Architect2018z/

1. Aulis Blomstedt
1906-1979

2. About Aulis Blomstedt
• Finnish architect and professor of architecture
at the Helsinki University of Technology. He
was a renowned modernist architect and
architectural theoretician in the decades
following the Second World War.

3. Design characteristics
• The work is sympathetic with the “Nordic Classicism”
found throughout Scandinavia architecture during the
1920s.
• Austerity and simplicity is not for the simple-minded,
who would miss the subtle and poetic realizations in
his work. Like that of the classical and Renaissance
architects before him.
• Much of Blomstedt’s body of work resides in Tapiola.
As extension to the Helsinki Finnish Worker’s Institute

4. His works
• Blomstedt received a classical education in
architecture at the Helsinki Institute of
Technology
• Although he did not design many buildings,
Blomstedt had a strong influence on Finnish
architecture and is often viewed as the
significant counterpoint to Aalto.

5. His works
• Though his work and writings, he aimed
to develop an objective theory of
architecture that could be verified
through practice, with simplicity,
austerity, and abstraction becoming the
essentials in his designs. In addition to
practicing, Blomstedt was a professor at
the Helsinki University of Technology,
and his influence is seen in the works of
his students, Kristian Gullichsen, Juhani
Pallasmaa, Erkki Kairamo, and Kirmo
Mikkola, among others, that were
executed since the 1970s.
• He also designed the logo of Finish
museum of architecture

6. 1940s
• Blomstedt was also a theoretician, however, and from the 1940s onward, he
focused on clarifying architecture through intellectual speculations. Modular and
proportional discipline was Blomstedt’s foundation, for he sought to develop a
universal system derived from human measurements and dimensional harmony.
The crystallization of his research was “Canon 60,” a system of dimensions and
proportions in which the principals of mathematical and musical harmony were
applied to building. In achieving this, he was able to extend his classical training
into contemporary architecture, continuing one of the oldest traditions in Western
architecture—using the principles of harmonic proportions— into current practice.
• He was editor of the Finnish Architectural Review (Arkkitehti) in 1941–45 and one
of the founders and the editor of the magazine Le Carré Bleu in 1958. He was also
active in the Finnish CIAM group.

7. Canon 60

8. Canon 60
• The Canon 60 consists of ten mutually harmonized modules. Blomstedt's rare
research in Finland aimed at achieving universal harmonious relationships
between architecture and industrial building construction.
• influenced by the emergence of the Canon 60 system was the Le Corbusier
Modulor published in 1943, the ideas of the German faculty teacher Ernst Neufert
in Helsinki and his Okmeter system based on his 12.5 cm module.
• Blomstedt also considered that the measuring system module should be relative,
relative. He began patiently empirically to study the multiplicity of small integers,
consisting of series and equivalents. Blomstedt was the starting point for the
demand of the ancient Bourne Ensemble, and on the other hand, the practical
implementation of the design work: simple and easy calculations. His theories
sought to combine body dimensions, arithmetic series of readings, and composite
poetry as a tool for architectural use.

9. Canon 60
• In 1954, when introducing a design of an industrial building system, he noted that
a continuous series of readings could have the preconditions for a common set of
measurements, and suggested the series: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 etc.
• In 1957, Blomstedt published an interim study of Module Variation 180 cm in size.
In the thesis, human length 180 cm was divided into 60 parts.
• Blomstedt decided to take the module 60 as the smallest figure that the integers
of the five main interval dividers go equally (octave 1/2, quint 2/3, quart 3/4, big
spindle 4/5 and small spindle 5/6) .
• The Canon 60 is a relative reading set that can be used to give different units of
dimensions: mm, cm, m, inch. The series can also be multiplied and divided by
integers without harmony, for example 5x75 = 375. This is an octave shift.
Blomstedt bound a series of human length measurements by 3 coefficients (3x60 =
180), i.e. by moving two octaves.

10. Canon 60
• The earliest destination where Blomstedt's modular
dimensioning is clearly noticeable is the object of the
Finnish artist's club at Tapriola, which was completed in
1954. An example of the use of the Canon 60 series is an
exceptionally successful addition to the extension of the
Helsinki Workers' College from 1959. The basic number of
the building is 36 and the main module is 360 cm. Similarly,
Blomstedt used the system in the As.Oy Riistapolku 1
apartment blocks completed in 1959 and the As.Oy Neliko
row house in Tapiola, completed in 1962.

11. Canon 60
• Blomstedt's Canon 60 is one of the most sought-after efforts to link
the relationship between architecture and the design logic of
modern industrial production. However, the system did not become
more common. Only the design based on the 3M module designed
for technical production conditions was replaced. [3] At the same
time, the flexibility and harmony of the relative system were lost.
Blomsted himself stated in the 3M module system in 1971: "The
modular concept of our day has completely eliminated the ancient
requirement of a relationship of communion."

12. 1940s (The Postwar period)
• In 1942, following the Russo-Finnish War, The Finnish Association of
Architects set up a reconstruction office to address the rebuilding issues
facing Finland, as well as relocation problems resulting from the war
(120,000 homes were destroyed or abandoned and over 400,000 citizens
were resettled from territory ceded to the Soviet Union).
• Blomstedt worked on the development of standardized plans and
prefabricated building designs with Viljo Revell, Kaj England, Aarne
Hytönen, Yrjö Lindegren, Olli Pöyry, and Erkki Koiso-Kanttile. In this
environment, Blomstedt laid the foundation for the postwar debate on
aesthetic principles and social applications of modular industrial systems
used for housing complexes. This work also had a powerful influence on
the development of Finnish building standards immediately after the war.

13. 1950s
• he developed his prefabricated building system Kenno (cell). In the
1950s he focussed on studying a system of measures based on the
human body and the musical harmony of measures. His modular
system Canon 60, based on the number 60, was first published in Le
Carré Bleu in 1961. In his architecture, Blomstedt emphasized
simplicity and clarity.
• Aulis Blomstedt established a theoretical basis for discourse
concerning the aesthetic principles and social applications of
modular systems. During the reconstruction period in the 1940s

14. Tapiola
• In 1952 Blomstedt joined Aarne
Ervi, Viljo Revell, Markus Tavio,
and the town planner, Otto-
I.Meurman, on the first phase of
the plan for Tapiola.
• Several of Blomstedt’s best
housing projects were designed
for Tapiola, including the
harmonious group of three chain
houses and three apartment
blocks on adjacent sides of a
street.

15. Tapiola
• With their alternating red
brick and white stucco
facades, the Ketju terraced
row houses have two-story
living quarters linked by a
variable intermediate
section that was designed
as reserve space for future
uses or needs.

16. Tapiola
• In 1952 Blomstedt joined Aarne
Ervi, Viljo Revell, Markus Tavio,
and the town planner, Otto-
I.Meurman, on the first phase of
the plan for Tapiola.
• Several of Blomstedt’s best
housing projects were designed
for Tapiola, including the
harmonious group of three chain
houses and three apartment
blocks on adjacent sides of a
street.

17. Tapiola
• The apartment blocks designed for
the other side of the street (but were
not built) would have reinforce the
streetscape, acting as a
compositional foil to the row
housing. Works in Tapiola include the
Finnish Artists Society terraced
housing (1955), the Riistapolku
housing complex (1957–60), and the
Helikko housing complex (1961–62),
among many other types of housing
projects.
The Riistapolku housing complex

18. 1960s and 1970s
• Professor of Architecture at Helsinki University
of Technology in 1958–66
• In 1972 he was Visiting Professor at
Washington University.

19. • Vaalijala Church- 1956
• Locality : Pieksämäki- Country : Finland
• Building style : Modern architecture

20. Vaalijala Church

21. List of references
• Encyclopedia of 20th centaury architecture, page 334-336.
• "Kannonkosken kirkko" (in Finnish). National Board of
Antiquities. 22 December 2009. Jump up ^ "Kannonkosken
kirkko - Kannonkoski church". Docomomo Suomi Finland ry.
• http://www.mfa.fi/architect?apid=3118
• http://rndrd.com/?b=125
• http://www.kuvio.helsinki.fi/en/reply01b_rela.php?id_koh
de=545#!prettyPhoto
• https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_60_-mittajärjestelmä

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