Tiit Kaljundi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tiit Kaljundi

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1946

Date of Death: 08-Feb-2008

Profession: architect

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Tiit Kaljundi

  • Tiit Kaljundi (4 April 1946 - 8 February 2008) was an Estonian architect and a member of the Tallinn School.
  • He graduated first in his class from Viljandi High School in 1964 and then studied at the Polytechnic Institute in the Faculty of Economics.
  • He attended the Estonian Academy of Arts starting in 1965 and graduated in 1970.Tiit Kaljundi became well known in the later part of the 1970s as a part of a new movement of Estonian architects that was led by Leonhard Lapin and Vilen Künnapu.
  • The majority of the architects in this movement were graduates from the State Art Institute in the early 1970s.
  • This group included Kaljundi, Avo-Himm Looveer, Ain Padrik, Jüri Okas, and Ignar Fjuk, as well as Veljo Kaasik and Toomas Rein from an older generation of architects.
  • After the 1983 exhibition in the Tallinn Art Salon, they became known as the “Tallinn Ten" or the "Tallinn School," a broader term to describe the group used by the Finnish architect Markku Komonen.

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