Bengt Lundsten

Bengt Harald Lundsten, born February 26, 1928, in Turku, is a Finnish architect and professor.

Life and career

Lundsten graduated in 1954 from Helsinki University of Technology in Helsinki. He was active at Viljo Revell's architect bureau 1952–1959 and partner in his agency in Toronto 1959–1961. He started his own architectural practice in Helsinki 1962 and was professor in building theory at the Helsinki University of Technology for 1969–1994. He conducted research on, among other things ecological building materials.

Selected works

City hall Toronto

Kvastekulla chapel

tram depot in Taka-Töölö (Helsinki)

• co-work on Toronto City Hall architecture in Toronto (1961)
• Kvastekulla cemetery yard with chapel in Swedish Partille (1956–1963)
• The passenger terminal in the ferry port Långnäs at Åland (1965): a glass box, suspended from steel cables in a steel frame (now demolished)
• From 2003 to 2004 he was responsible for the restoration and conversion of the Taka-Töölö (Helsinki) tram depot into a tram and traffic museum, the restoration of the Mauritzberg Castle in Norrköping Municipality (Sweden) and the archipelago center in the village Korpoström (on the Finnish island Korpo).

Further reading

• Prof. Bengt Lundsten (1971-06-09). "Hur uppfattar vi industriellt byggande?". Forum (business magazine). pp. 23–24. ISSN 0533-070X.