Lars Sonck

Lars Sonck
Born
Lars Eliel Sonck

(1870-08-10)10 August 1870
Kälviä, Finland
Died14 March 1956(1956-03-14) (aged 85)
Helsinki, Finland
NationalityFinnish
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsTampere Cathedral, Tampere
Eira Hospital, Helsinki
Kallio Church, Helsinki
Stock Exchange, Helsinki
Projects"Sonck quartier", Töölö, Helsinki

Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many established architects. The church was designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style. However, Sonck's style would soon go through a dramatic change, in the direction of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism that was moving through Europe at the end of the 19th century. During the 1920s, Sonck would also design a number of buildings in the emerging Nordic Classicism style.