Tõnu Mellik

Tõnu Mellik (12 May 1934 Tartu – 3 June 1993 Tallinn) was an Estonian architect.[1]

Early life

He graduated from Tallinn Secondary School in 1952 and continued his studies at the Moscow State All-Union Institute of Cinematography in directing. From 1953 he studied at the State Institute of the Estonian SSR and graduated in 1959. Worked from 1959 to 62. year in Tallinn and in 1964–68. worked as a senior engineer and a junior researcher at the Institute of Building and Building Materials. Between 1968 and 75 He worked as an architect in the "Estonian Land Reconstruction Project". 1975–87 He was a senior lecturer at ERKI and from 1981 was the chief architect of the "Esmar" private company. From 1960 he was a member of the Union of Architects.[1]

Personal

Son of sculptor Voldemar Mellik and Linda Mellik, brother of architect Ants Mellik.[2]

Creation

Tõnu Mellik designed industrial, public and residential buildings. Tõnu Mellik designed industrial and public buildings and residential buildings. He did the planning and construction of villages and small towns: Kiili, Kohila, Kuusalu, Loja, Taebla and Viru-Jaagupi. An integral ensemble stands out with R. Veber in Habeneme and, with P. Jane, Padise.[1]

He participated in the development of the Tallinn General Plan and for the Reconstruction of the Center of the City in 1968. The most magnificent building he worked on with P. Jänes is the ski port training base, which was built in 1978 and matched into the domelike landscape.[1]

Architects in the Soviet era likeTõnu Mellik where simply practitioners and most of the theoretical problems were never addressed at all. Soviet orders did not allow architects to freely create their own works.[3]

More Tõnu Männiks Buildings:

  • Tallinn Experimental Base of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in Männiku (1962)
  • The factory "Volta" technical building (1965)
  • Cooperative House "Ühistare" on the J.J.Gonsiori Street (1966)
  • Keila-Joal sanatorium boarding school training building (1976 )
  • Working with P. Jänese Padisel 12-apartment three-storey terraced houses (1979)
  • Working with P. Jänese Tamsalu Culture House (1980 )
  • Viimsi office building (1991)[1]

Awards won
  • In 1958 Ants and Tõnu Melling won the Ⅰ-II prize for the Mustamäe residential area plan.
  • In 1971 he won the Ⅰ prize for the Saha-Loo area plan and buildings.
  • In 1972 working with P. Jänse won the Ⅰ-II prize for the opera and ballet theatre at Tõnismägi in Tallinn.
  • In 1976 he won the Ⅰ prize for the Pajusi Collective Farm.
  • In 1977 working with P. Jänse won Ⅰ prize for Elva retirement home .
  • In 1978 Tartu Designers' House won the Ⅰ prize.[1]

References
  1. EKABL. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus. 1996. p. 308.
  2. "Tõnu Mellik". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  3. Kalm, Mart (2002). Eesti 20. sajandi arhitektuur. Tallinn. p. 237.
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