Erik Møller

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Rødovre town hall developed together with Arne Jacobsen (1955–1956)
Industriens Hus on Rådhuspladsen in the center of Copenhagen (1977–1979)

Svend Erik Møller (born November 7, 1909 in Aarhus ; † March 24, 2002 ) was a Danish architect .

Life

From 1930 Møller worked as a freelance architect in an office with two partners. He collaborated on several projects with Arne Jacobsen . Together they won the architecture competition for the new Aarhus Town Hall in 1936 . During the construction of the functionalist building from 1938 to 1942, Møller supervised the work on site, while Jacobsen worked on other projects in Copenhagen. At the same time, they also worked on Søllerød's new town hall . After the World War, from which Jacobsen fled to neutral Sweden, they continued their collaboration. From 1955 to 1956 they developed the Rødovre Town Hall , one of the first buildings with a curtain wall facade in Denmark. They then parted ways. Erik Møller coined the term “ glass cigar box ” for Arne Jacobsen's SAS Royal Hotel , which has an almost identical facade design to the jointly developed town hall of Rødovre.

In 1959 he was responsible for the expansion of the Copenhagen branch of the Danish department store chain Magasin du Nord on Kongens Nytorv . He added a four-story new building to the main building erected in 1893, which was also given a curtain wall facade. In 1965 he designed and built the first Bella Center building , which was rebuilt in 1975 when the event center was expanded to another location. From 1977 to 1979 he built the “House of Industry” (Industriens Hus) on Rådhuspladsen in central Copenhagen for the Danish “Industrierat” (Industrirådet) .

Work (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Erik Møller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Møller. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on December 14, 2009 (list of projects)
  2. ↑ Jeff Chu: Happy Birthday, Arne Jacobsen ( Memento from October 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) in Time (English)
  3. ^ Tobias Faber 1968: New Danish Architecture , Gerd Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart. P. 178 ff
personal data
SURNAME Møller, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Møller, Svend Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarhus
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2002