Kjetil Thorsen

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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the architecture firm Snøhetta. [1]

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History

Thorsen was born on 14 June 1958 on the Norwegian coastal island of Karmøy. After several years in Germany and England, he studied architecture in Graz, Austria. [2] He had practiced at the office of Espen Tharaldsen (Arbeidsgruppen Hus) in Bergen (1982–1983), Ralph Erskine in Stockholm (1983–1984) and David Sandved in Haugesund (1985). [3] In 1987, he formed an architectural practice in Oslo with a group of young architects. They named it Snøhetta after the tallest mountain in the Dovrefjell National Park. [4]

Designs

Thorsen led several award winning design competitions for public buildings around the world. He led the Snøhetta teams designing the museum built for the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, [1] the 2007 Serpentine Gallery temporary Pavilion in London designed with Olafur Eliasson, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Alexandria, Egypt, [2] and the new Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway. [2] He was a founder of Norway’s foremost architecture gallery, Galleri Rom in 1986.

Associations

Thorsen had been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck since 2004.[ citation needed ]

Decorations and honorary degrees

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References

  1. 1 2 "Snøhetta Arkitektur Landskap as". Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 "Kjetil Trædal Thorsen". Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  3. "Speakers at the ArchiFest Forum 2010". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  4. Owen, David (14 January 2013). "The Psychology of Space". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  5. Utnevnelse til St. Olavs Orden, The Royal House of Norway, 13 June 2008, retrieved 29 May 2009
  6. "Global Award for Sustainable Architecture". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  7. Anon 2014

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