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Place of Birth: Väike-Maarja Rural Municipality, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
About Alar Kotli
- Alar Kotli (27 August 1904 in Väike-Maarja - 4 October 1963 in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect.
- He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922-1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu.
- He graduated from the Gdansk University of Technology in 1927 as an architect. Among the most famous and influential Estonian architects, Kotli has created several important landmarks in Tallinn.
- These include the Estonian Song Festival grounds (1957-1960, with Henno Sepmann & E.
- Paalmann), the main building of Tallinn University (1938-1940, with Erika Nõva), the Art Fund building (1949-1953) and the administrative building in Kadriorg park (currently the residence of the president of the Republic of Estonia) in conjunction with architect Olev Siinmaa (1937-1938).
- Kotli has also created many experimental apartment building projects, which were widely used after World War II when there was a serious need for new dwellings.
- Smaller buildings (for two families) were used in the 1950s as lottery jackpots. Kotli's style has varied over the years.
- He has designed many functionalistic buildings in the 1930s, for example - schoolhouses in Rakvere (1935-1938) and Tapa (1936-1939).
- The Presidential Palace, also dating from the 1930s, can be categorised as historicism, while his 1950s and 1960s style is similar to brutalism.
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