(b Alavus, nr Seinäjoki, 18 May 1901; d Helsinki, 17 Nov 1956). Finnish architect. He was an important designer of Functionalist office and industrial buildings in Finland. Huttunen trained at the Technical High School in Helsinki between 1921 and 1927, at the same time practising as a painter and caricaturist. He was the architect for the SOK (Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta) chain of shops from 1928 to 1942. His first shops were in the classical style, but after 1930 the SOK building division’s design principles moved rapidly towards Functionalism through his influence. The rural shop as created by Huttunen (cubic, stuccoed and painted white with a gently sloping roof), as well as streamlined offices and warehouses with horizontal bands of windows, promoted the spread of Modernism in Finland. The mill at Viipuri (1930; now Vyborg, Russian Federation) was constructed entirely of reinforced concrete and steel joists; it was Finland’s first Functionalist factory building. Examples of Huttunen’s industrial architecture in red brick are the Functionalist complexes for the state alcohol monopoly at Rajamäki near Helsinki (1935) and Enso (1936; now Svetogorsk, Russian Federation). The church at Nakkila, near Pori in the south-west of the country (1937), is one of Finland’s few Functionalist ecclesiastical buildings.