Yrjö Lindegren

Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren (13 August 1900 – 12 November 1952) was a Finnish architect and Olympic gold medalist.

He graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Helsinki University of Technology, and set up his own office later the same year.

[1] Lindegren's best-known work is the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, which he designed together with Toivo Jäntti in the early 1930s.

[2] Lindegren won the Grand Prix in architecture at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France.

In the mid-1940s, he worked together with Alvar Aalto and Viljo Revell, making several community plans for the post-World War II Finland.