Danish architects

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Jørn Utzon, Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Lauritz de Thurah, Henrik Ruse, Bjarke Ingels, Nicolai Eigtved, Christian Hansen, Nicolas-Henri Jardin, Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, Joseph Christian Lillie, Heinrich Wenck, Jan Gehl, Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, Christian Frederik Hansen, Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Thorvald Jørgensen, Søren Robert Lund, Poul Henningsen, Sven Risom, Theophil Hansen, Jacob Fortling, Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen, Johan Daniel Herholdt, Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Julien De Smedt, Hermann Baagøe Storck, C.F. Møller, Anthonis van Obbergen, Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann, Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Jørgen Hansen Koch, Kaare Klint, Ludvig Fenger, Hans Linstow, Dorte Mandrup, Anton Rosen, List of Danish architects, Vilhelm Dahlerup, Hans-Georg Tersling, Lene Tranberg, Johan Conrad Ernst, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Ferdinand Meldahl, Kay Fisker, Philip de Lange, Lambert van Haven, Adrian Carter, Vilhelm Lauritzen, Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, Ludvig Knudsen, Knud Holscher, Johan Martin Quist, Henning Larsen, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, Ewert Janssen, Vilhelm Wohlert, Frits Schlegel, Michael Christensen, Martin Borch, Hans Jørgen Holm, Elias David Häusser, Andreas Hallander, Hercules von Oberberg, Lise Roel and Hugo Höstrup, Tobias Faber, Hack Kampmann, Kim Utzon, Johann Gottfried Rosenberg, Mathias Bidstrup, Mogens Koch, Poul Hultberg, Mogens Lassen, Martin Nyrop, Arne Kvorning, Peter Kjær, Thomas Reed, Erik Møller, Malene Hauxner, Kim Højvang Nielsen, Lorenz van Steenwinckel, Thorvald Bindesbøll, Johan Cornelius Krieger, Erik Asmussen, Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen, Johannes Paludan, Jens Klemmensen, Max Brüel, Johan Henrik Nebelong, Egon Möller-Nielsen, Cornelis Altenau, Henrik Vilhelm Brinkopff, Carsten Primdahl, Ivar Bentsen, Georg David Anthon, Carl Harald Brummer, Kolja Nielsen. Excerpt: Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, (11 February 1902 - 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and designer. In particular, he is remembered for developing the 'Danish Modern' style and for contributing so much to architectural functionalism. In addition to his architectural work, he was one of the most important contributors to Danish design, especially as a result of the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs. Arne Jacobsen was born on 11 February 1902 in Copenhagen to upper-middle-class Jewish parents. He first hoped to become a painter but was dissuaded by his father who encouraged him to opt instead for the more secure domain of architecture. After a spell as an apprentice mason, Jacobsen was admitted to the Architecture School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where from 1924 to 1927 he studied under Kay Fisker and Kaj Gottlob, both leading architects and designers. Still a student, in 1925 Jacobsen participated in the Paris Art Deco fair, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, where he won a silver medal for a chair design. On that trip, he was struck by the pioneering aesthetic of Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Nouveau pavilion. Before leaving the Academy, Jacobsen also travelled to Germany, where he became acquainted with the rationalist architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Their work influenced his early designs including his graduation project, an art gallery, which won him a gold medal. After completing architecture school, he first worked at c...