Yrjö Lorenz Lindegren

Finnish architect Yrjö Lindegren won the gold medal in the Art Competitions at the 1948 London Olympics in the category Design For Town Planning with his Model for “The Centre of Athletics in Varkaus”. He studied at the Technical University of Helsinki and founded his own architecture studio. Lindgren designed the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki for the Olympic Games in 1940 together with Toivo Jäntti. Although the Games were not held due to World War II, the stadium was built in 1938, and was eventually used for the 1952 Olympics. In 1937 Lindegren won the Grand Prix for architecture at the World’s Fair in Paris. In the mid-1940s, he worked together with Alvar Aalto and Viljo Revell, making several community plans for post-World War II Finland. Lindegren died shortly after the Helsinki Olympics.