Education
Born in December 8, 1912 in Turku, Finland, Aarnio earned his Bachelor of Architecture from New York University in 1938, graduating cum laude.
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Reino Aarnio
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Aarnio joined the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter in 1948 and established his own firm that year. In 1967, he was Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology.
Achievements
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He won the F.B. Morse Prize in 1935 and the Sherrill Prize in 1936. He was also the Chairman of the Arts and Architecture committee of the Finlandia Foundation from 1960. The Vice Chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals, River Edge, New Jersey from 1965. Architectural consultant for the American-Scandinavian Foundation Scholarship Awards Committee from 1965. And liaison as the Planning Board of River Edge, New Jersey from 1969. He received a Best Municipal Library Award for Paramus Public Library, Paramus, New Jersey in the Book of the Month Club, 1965.
Membership
He was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Scandinavian Seminar for University Level Studies in Scandinavia from 1959.
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