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	Sverre Fehn
Born	August 14, 1924; Kongsberg, Norway
Died	February 23, 2009; Norway
Education	Oslo School of Architecture and Design (1948)
Firms	Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier.
Notes
At Great Buildings	http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Sverre_Fehn.html

Contents 1 Works 2 Discussion 2.1 Related Content from Wikipedia 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] Works

• Handcraft House, Maihaugen, Lillehammer, Norway (1949)(coop. Geir Grung)
• Økern House for the Elderly, Økernveien, Oslo, Norway (1952-55)(coop. Geir Grung)

• Norwegian Pavilion (1958), Brussels, Belgium, at Brussels World Exhibition, 1958.
• The H. Underand House, Ski, Norway (1960-62)
• Nordic Pavilion (1962), Venice, Italy, at Venice Biennale, 1962.
• Schreiner House, Oslo, Norway, 1963.
• The House in Norrköping, Sweden (1963-64)
• Rebuilding of the Colosseum Theater, Oslo, Norway (1964)
• Arne Bødtker House, Oslo, Norway (1961-65)
• The Wessel House, Oslo, Norway (1962-65)
• Carl Bødtker House I, Oslo, Norway (1965-67)
• Villa Sparre, Skedsmo, Norway (1965-67)
• The Jonsrud House, Oslo, Norway (1968-70)
• Telemark Agricultural School, Nome Telemark, Norway (1970)
• Bøler Community Center, Oslo, Norway (1962-72)
• Skårdalen School of deaf Children, Oslo, Norway (1975)
• Hamar Bispegaard Museum at the larger Hedmark Museum, Hamar, Norway, 1967 to 1979.
• Carl Bødtker House II, Oslo, Norway (1982-85)
• Norwegian Glacier Museum, Fjaerland, Norway, .
• Busk House, Bamble, Norway, 1990.
• The ECO House, Norrköping, Sweden (1991)
• Ivar Aasen-tunet, Ørsta/Volda
• Aukrustsenteret, Alvdal
• Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
• Norwegian Architecture Museum, Oslo, Nowrway
• Villa Busk
• Villa Holme, Holmsbu, Norway (1972-97)
• Expansion of the Natural Lands Trust Headquarters, Media, Pennsylvania, 2003

[edit] Discussion

Sverre Fehn was born in Kongsberg, Norway in 1924. He graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1948 and immediately established a private practice in Oslo. He has been a Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture since 1970.

As a prominent post-war architect, Fehn helped influence the architecture of Norway. Along with several other architects of his generation, he created a new architecture based on the Modern Movement, but expressed with regional forms and materials. This regenerated style helped overcome the pre- and post-war nationalism that had generated a weakened aesthetic. Closely involved with CIAM, Carre Bleu, and Team 10, Fehn is often considered the most gifted practitioner among these groups.

Never dogmatic in his beliefs, Fehn instills a human quality within his buildings that moves beyond the definitive Modern Movement statement. This quality exists in most of his buildings which exhibit great simplicity while also utilizing poetic qualities of light and subtleties of form.

Fehn explored the ideas of Japanese architecture in some deceptively simple timber houses which displayed a great sensitivity to the needs of the client and which all show a freedom from typical house plans. In his more recent works, he has exhibited a bold understanding of form and materials that has allowed him to continue his search for a new architectural language.

"Sverre Fehn (born 1924) received his architectural education shortly after WWII and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation. He is also Norway’s most widely acclaimed architect abroad.

"At the age of 34 Fehn gained international recognition for his design of the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition. In the 1960s he produced two works that have remained highlights in his career: the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Hedmark Museum in Hamar, Norway." - Norway Post

"Relatively few of Mr. Fehn’s designs were realized, and nearly all his work was done in Scandinavia. When he received the Pritzker Prize he had completed 11 buildings, among them the Storhamar, a converted barn that forms part of the Hedmark Museum (1973) in Hamar, and the Aukrust Museum (1993-96) in Alvdal, devoted to the painter Kjell Aukrust.

"His final years were marked by a burst of activity. He designed the Oslo headquarters of the Gyldendal publishing house, which was completed in 2007, and the Norwegian Museum of Architecture, which opened in March 2008 with a retrospective exhibition of Mr. Fehn’s work." - New York Times

Details

• Recipient, Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1997.
• Recipient, Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal

[edit] Related Content from Wikipedia

Sverre Fehn

See a related page at Wikipedia for additional information.

[edit] References

• Muriel Emmanuel. Contemporary Architects. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ISBN 0-312-16635-4. NA 680-C625. p245-246.

[edit] External Links

• Sverre Fehn Pritzker Prize — Several pages of good background information, at the Pritzker Prize site.
• Norwegian architect, Sverre Fehn, dies at 84 - Norway.org, 2009.0312.
• Sverre Fehn, 84, Architect of Modern Nordic Forms, Dies - New York Times, 2009.0227]
• Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has died - Norway Post, 2009.0312
• Sverre Fehn Obituary, People and Places, ArchitectureWeek No. 419, 2009.0311, pN2.1.