Lars Sonck

Lars Sonck
Born	Lars Eliel Sonck (1870-08-10)10 August 1870 Kälviä, Finland
Died	14 March 1956(1956-03-14) (aged 85) Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	Tampere 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.