comprised Bernhard Heikkilä, Chairman of the Building Board and farm owner; Jussi
Paatela (1906–1962) and Väinö Vähäkallio (1886–1959), architect members elected by
the Finnish Association of Architects; Akseli Koskimies,^562 Professor elected by the
Finnish Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and former Director General
of the State Medical Board; and elected by the Building Board, Severi Savonen,^563 the
Secretary and Ombudsman of the of the Finnish Association for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis and Medical Director Väinö Horelli.^564 As an architect of industrial and
commercial buildings, Väinö Vähäkallio was familiar with the development of con-
struction technology and the demands of rationalisation.^565 Vähäkallio had also been a
member of the architectural competition jury for the 1927 Southwest Finland Agricul-
tural Cooperative Building, which elected Aalto as the winner.^566 Paatela, in turn, had
specialised in hospital design and during the competition he served both as an advisor
for the Hospital Unit of the State Medical Board and as a lecturer of architecture at
562 Akseli Yrjö Koskimies (formerly Forsman) was born in Turku in 1869. He graduated with a Master’s degree in
philosophy in 1890, as a physician in 1892 and as Licentiate of Medicine in 1896. His entire medical career was
remarkably multidisciplinary. He made study trips to the Nordic countries and Germany in the 1910s and 1920s. In
his early career, he served as the Medical Officer of Health in the municipalities of Ilmajoki and Seinäjoki, Medical
Officer of Health in the City of Hämeenlinna, House Officer at the City of Helsinki Health Department for the pre-
vention of venereal disease, Senior Medical Adviser at the State Medical Board 1911–1915 and 1917–1920, Director
General of State Medical Board 1920–1927 and Medical Director at Mutual Life Insurance Company Salama since
its establishment in 1910. He held notable Finnish and international positions, such as the chairmanship of Finnish
Medical Society Duodecim in 1909. Koskimies was a member of several organisations and associations including
the Finnish Insurance Association and the German Association for Insurance Science, and he was one of the
founding members of the Finnish Medical Association and member of its advisory board from 1927, the Chairman
of the Finnish Society of Dermatology, a member of the Finnish Psychiatric-Neurological Association and the Nor-
dic Association of Dermatology, and he was made an honorary member of the Swedish National Association for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1929. Koskimies had participated in the work of a committee appointed for the
prevention of tuberculosis as early as 1889, and he had served as a member of the planning committee of the City
of Helsinki Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1912. Koskimies was given the honorary title of Professor in 1927. Soininen
1935, pp. 253–255.
563 Severi Sefanias Savonen was born in Turku in 1886 as a son of a painter. He graduated as a physician in 1908,
as a Licenciate of Medicine in 1913 and specialised in pulmonary diseases in 1915. Savonen made a remarkable
number of study trips in the 1920s and early 1930s to Scandinavia, UK, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germa-
ny, France, Italy and the Netherlands. He participated in the Nordic tuberculosis specialists’ conferences in 1921,
1925, 1927, 1929, 1931 and 1933. He served as the ombudsman and secretary of the Finnish Association for the
Prevention of Tuberculosis from 1925, having previously made a career as a physician at a number of sanatoria.
He held positions at Finnish, Nordic and international tuberculosis specialist associations and was a sought-after
lecturer. Savonen also wrote a large body of literature on tuberculosis, both popular and scientific books and
articles. Soininen 1935, pp. 466–467.
564 Väinö Valpas Horelli was born into a farming family from Kokemäki in 1882. He graduated as a physician in
1907, he became a Doctor of Medicine in 1930 with the thesis Keuhkotuberkuloosin kirurgisesta hoidosta (On
the Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis); in addition he published other publications on the topic of
tuberculosis in the early 1930s. Horelli conducted study trips to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany in the
1920s. He mainly practiced his profession in Southwest Finland, where he held several positions, including acting
Junior Physician at Turku Regional Hospital, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Uusikaupunki, Physician at the
District Psychiatric Hospital of Southwest Finland, Physician for the railway construction project between Turku
and Uusikaupunki and Medical Director for Satakunta Sanatorium from 1924. Horelli also held positions of trust in
local politics. Soininen 1935, pp. 180–181.
565 During the competition period, he served as the Technical Director of the building department of the Confedera-
tion of Finnish Co-operatives. The organisation in question observed a rationalistic building method and collective
design approach, in which the contribution of individual designers remained anonymous. Niskanen 2005, passim.
and especially pp. pp. 53–54.
566 Suominen-Kokkonen 2007, p. 52.