Selim A. Lindqvist is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Selim A. Lindqvist as Finnish architect (1867–1939).
Selim A. Lindqvist was born at Helsinki in 1867. His recorded nationality is Finland. He trained at Helsinki University of Technology.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Fazer commercial, Lundqvist commercial and Aeolus Building, Helsinki. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Finland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Selim A. Lindqvist died in 1939, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Fazer commercial
- Notable work: Lundqvist commercial
- Notable work: Aeolus Building, Helsinki
- Trained at Helsinki University of Technology
