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Architect, educator
Elina Amann, last edited on 12.10.2022
Name:
Eliana Niyole Buchute / LT: Elena Nijolė Bučiūtė / RU: Эляна Нийоле Бучюте
Life Dates:
1930 – 2010
Country:
Employers:
Institute for Mining Design, Litproekt (1953-1976)
Field of expertise:
Architectural design
Education:
Vilnius Academy of Arts (1953)
Awards:
The Lithuanian Eliana Niyole Buchute was born in Kaunas on 16 February 1930. She graduated in architectural studies from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1953. After graduation, she worked her way up as an architect to project manager at the Institute of Mining Design (Litproekt). At the same time, Buchute began teaching at the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (VISI) in 1971.
The architect and professor participated in international architecture exhibitions in Moscow (1966) and in Prague (1972).
In 1980, she received the State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR for her work.
Buchute opened her own creative studio in 1994.
Buchute designed over fifty buildings during her career. Among the most important works is the building of the Lithuanian National Theatre for Opera and Ballet. It was built in 1974 and is located in Vilnius. The theatre hall can seat up to 1,200 people. In the late 1970s, it was one of the largest and most modern cultural buildings in the Baltic States.
Seven years earlier, also under her direction, the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Republican Design Institute for Land Management (Institute of Land Use Design) was built.
In 1988, she designed a complex of consumer service enterprises in the Novaya Vilna (Vilnius) district, including a police station.
Another important construction of the architect was the Defence Headquarters of the Ministry of Territorial Protection around 1998. The building of the government agency is also located in the capital of Lithuania.
Main image: Sąžiningo naudojimo, https://lt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=613467 (last accessed on 06.10.2022)
Fig. 1: By Qwarc – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3688479 (last accessed on 06.10.2022)
Fig. 2: By Alma Pater – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3788923 (last accessed on 06.10.2022)
Fig. 3: By Alma Pater – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3812294 (last accessed on 06.10.2022)
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