Timo Penttilä

Timo Jussi Penttilä
Planning Helsinki City Theatre in 1964: from the left, Jukka Siivola, Pekka Salminen and Timo Penttilä
Born(1931-03-16)16 March 1931
Tampere, Finland
Died25 February 2011(2011-02-25) (aged 79)
Helsinki
OccupationArchitect
PracticeArkkitehtitoimisto Timo Penttilä
BuildingsHelsinki City Theatre
Sampola House, Tampere
Hanasaari power station, Helsinki

Timo Jussi Penttilä (16 March 1931 – 25 February 2011) was one of Finland's most important modernist architects and was for over 15 years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. He is most renowned for the design of the Helsinki City Theatre (1961–67).

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