库卡波罗个人作品

1933年，出生于维堡（Wyborg）
1954-1958年，在赫尔辛基工艺设计学院进行专业学习
自1959年起，担任库卡波罗设计事务所主设计师

设计、教育和学术生涯
1963-1969：赫尔辛基工艺设计学院任教
1969-1974：赫尔辛基工艺设计学院建筑艺术系任教
1974-1980：赫尔辛基艺术设计大学（UIAH）教授
1978-1980：赫尔辛基艺术设计大学（UIAH）校长
1988-1993：荣获教授艺术家（北欧最高学术称号）
1978：伦教皇家艺术学院客座教授
1980-1999：瑞典、丹麦、挪威、英国、日本、澳大利亚、意大利、克罗地亚、及中国巡回演讲

主要成就、奖励及突出贡献
1961年芬兰工业艺术协会学者奖
1961年芬兰设计协会“美丽之家”学者奖
1963年赫尔辛基市文学艺术奖
1966年斯堪的那维亚Lunning Prize奖章
1970年芬兰共和国设计成果奖
1972年获斯堪的那维亚《室内装潢》杂志举办的国际家具设计赛一等奖
1974年《纽约》杂志兴办的国际座椅设计竞赛一等奖
1974年丹麦哥本哈根Illum奖
1981年BRNO国际博览会金奖
1982年Aliar Aalto基金会Artek奖章
1983年芬兰共和国总统奖章
1984年美国IBD成就奖
1985年芬兰室内设计师SIO哥本哈根奖
1991年芬兰Ornamo设计师协会Ornamo奖
1995年芬兰设计论坛Kaj Franck设计奖
1997年10月芬兰邮政公司发行了一套共六枚关于芬兰重大设计成果的邮票，库卡波罗设计的卡路赛利椅Karuselli入选。
1999年10月总部设在巴黎的联合国产品管理组织邀请了99位名人评定出99件20世纪最重要的设计，库卡波罗的Karuselli榜上有名。
　
被永久收藏的作品
1965年美国纽约现代艺术博物馆(Ateljee)
1971，1984年英国伦教维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆（Karuselli, Remmi）
1979，1981年芬兰赫尔辛基应用艺术博物馆（Fysio,Skkaala）
1983，1996年德国汉堡工艺艺术品博物馆（Experiments）
1983，1987年瑞典哥特堡Rsska博物馆（A504）
1989年瑞典斯德哥尔摩国家博物馆（Experiment: Free Diagonal）
1990年以色列耶路撒冷博物馆（Sirkus）
1991年德国Weilam Rhein,Vitra设计博物馆（Karuselli, Saturnus C, 415）
1999年冰岛Reykjarik设计博物馆（Long Chair）

这位新一代的天才设计师，从赫尔辛基艺术设计大学毕业后就与阿旺特公司Avarte Oy 合作。与阿旺特公司合作过的设计师还有Pentti Hakala, Simo Heikkil, Jouko J.rvisalo, Jouni Leino, Jarkko Reiman, Petri Vainio 和 Kimmo Varjoranta，以及现在在伦敦的爱沙尼亚设计师 Jyri Kermik。他们的设计哲学中都可以找到功能主义的理念，这也保证了产品范围的连贯性和一致性。
约里奥·库卡波罗教授的设计能够反映设计师对空间的感知和理解能力，不管这种空间是古典的还是现代的。家具是建筑的补充，它被整合进建筑空间而不会凌驾于建筑之上。公司和库卡波罗经常和建筑师们紧密合作。许多设计即使最初是为某个特定工程而试验产生，但后来也被证明它们同样适用于类似的工程。也许这是由于它们的普遍品质以及家具设计通常不涉及特定的风格或时代的原因吧。当然也有一些家具被设计成不同的式样以适应各种不同公众需要。
库卡波罗曾经师从伊尔玛利·塔比瓦拉和奥利·伯格，他们向库卡波罗教授了“功能主义”，年轻的库卡波罗非常敬佩他们的学识和智慧。他后来成为赫尔辛基艺术设计大学的校长和教授，并在执教中继续推行他的实用主义路线。他的设计准则是简单、实用，同时他重视材料及其自然的形式语言，使作品获得了令人难忘的功能性。因为功能主义成为各个方面工作的核心，所以设计作品总会得到最佳的结果。这非常适合于库卡波罗，他不希望出现过于个人化的设计语言，另外他还总是避免过于强烈地表现设计。

Avarte Oy is a privately-owned Finnish furniture manufacturer with wide range of high design contract furniture. The company operates worldwide, constantly searching new ideas for ambitious design and product development work.
timeless furniture
The freshness and contemporary nature of Avarte furniture does not fade with time. For example "Karuselli" and "Remmi" from the 1960's still look fashionable. But the timelessness is no coincidence. Many products can be renewed time after time simply by changing materials and colours while the original form remains unchanged. Other features of the collection are the lightness of the furniture and the honesty of their form often reflected by structural details as well. Many products appear to be like architecture in a reduced size. Their visually light structure takes respectfully into account space, too, and complements tactfully the architecture of the building.
design talent
From the very beginning, professor Yrj Kukkapuro has been company's principal designer. Talented designers of the younger generation, graduates of the University of Industrial Arts, also collaborate with Avarte. Designers such as Pentti Hakala, Simo Heikkil, Jouko J.rvisalo, Jouni Leino, Jarkko Reiman, Petri Vainio ja Kimmo Varjoranta have worked for Avarte, as well as the Estonian-born Jyri Kermik, resident of London at present. Concepts of functionalism can be found in their design philosophy, too, upgraded, which guarantees the continuity of the coherence of the product range.
modern classic
For example the following museums have taken furniture designed by Yrj? Kukkapuro for Avarte to their permanent collections: New York: Museum of Modern Art, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Helsinki museums of industrial art, and the National Museum in Stockholm.
global environment
Avarte has participated in many Nordic projects as well as projects in other European countries, Asia, USA and Australia. The company has supplied furniture to cultural centres, city halls, offices of many international corporations, universities and other institutes, banks and hospitals.
Yrj? Kukkapuro
Professor Kukkapuro has been the company's principal designer from the very beginning. His designs reflect an awareness of space and its function, be it the space of classical or modern buildings. Furniture has been designed by making it complement the architecture of the building, by making it assimilate with the space without dominating it. Avarte and Kukkapuro often work in close co-operation with architects. Even though many products have originally been designed, tested and manufactured for a certain environment, many of them have proven appropriate for other corresponding projects. This may result from the universality of the products and the fact that they seldom point to any specific style or era. Some products have also been manufactured in different versions suitable for many public facilities.
Kukkapuro studied under Ilmari Tapiovaara and Olli Borg who taught him the practical meaning of functionalism, and young Kukkapuro greatly respected their wisdom and philosophy. Later he became the principal and professor of the University of Industrial Arts, and in his teaching he continued and expressed his functional thinking. His form language is based on a simple, clear and often imposing functionality which takes into account materials and their natural formal aspects as well. The outcomes of the design work are perfect wholes precisely because functionality in all its manifestations is their core. This is appropriate for Kukkapuro who wishes to avoid excessive personification and who does not want to present hyperbolic views about design, either.