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Pekka Salminen | |
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 Planning Helsinki City Theatre in 1964: from the left, Jukka Siivola, Pekka Salminen and Timo Penttilä | |
| Born | Peka Salminen 11 August 1937 Tampere, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Order of the Croatian Star, Medal for Merits in Culture Professor, honorary title granted by the President of Finland |
| Practice | PES Architects |
| Buildings | Wuxi Grand Theatre, Wuxi, China Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Finland Concert Hall St. Mary's Church, Neubrandenburg, Germany |
Pekka Salminen (born 11 August 1937 in Tampere) is a Finnish Professor of Architecture and founder and a senior partner of PES-Architects, formed in 1968, in Helsinki, Finland. He is also the founder of Unije Workshop International UWI, and the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning, formed in Unije, Croatia, in 1987.
He received a BSc in architecture from Tampere Institute of Technology in 1960, and an MSc in architecture from Helsinki University of Technology, 1966. At that time he was employed by notable Finnish architect Timo Penttilä and worked on the design of Penttilä's most notable work Helsinki City Theatre, completed in 1967. On Penttilä's death in 2011, Salminen wrote the chief obituary in the Finnish architectural press. Salminen is a member of the Finnish Association of Architects SAFA and the Association of Croatian Architects.