Steen Eiler Rasmussen

Steen Eiler Rasmussen (born February 19, 1898 in Copenhagen ; † June 19, 1990 there ) was a Danish architect , urban planner , writer and university lecturer .

Life

After finishing school, Rasmussen first did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer before he began studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1916 , which he graduated in 1918. In 1919 he founded his architecture office. In the same year he won two competitions for his urban planning work for Ringsted and Hirtshals . From 1922 to 1934 and 1938 he was a member of the twelve-member council of the art academy. From 1924 he was a representative of the academy in the Dansk Byplanlaboratorium , the Danish urban planning laboratory , and was a member of this as deputy and chairman until 1948.

Rasmussen was married from 1934 until his wife's death in 1985. Their daughter is the linguist Una Canger . He was a close friend of the writer Karen Blixen .

Professional career

From 1924 Rasmussen was a lecturer in urban planning at the academy, and from 1938 to 1968 he was professor of architecture at the academy. One of his students was Jørn Utzon , the architect of the Sydney Opera House . From 1946 to 1949 and then again in 1954/55 he was dean of the Academy's architecture school. From 1932 to 1938 he worked in the city planning department of the Copenhagen Building Department.

Planning work

urban planning

• Collaboration on the finger plan with which the development of Copenhagen and its surroundings was planned.
• Participation in the planning for the city of Tingbjerg , in København NV, 6 km northwest of central Copenhagen.
• Ditto when planning Hørsholm , 25 km west of Copenhagen.

building

• Ringsted Town Hall , awarded in 1933 and 1935, executed in 1995.
• Mødrehjælpen ( Mothers' Fund ), in København Ø.
• 1938: His own house in Hørsholm.
• 1960: Renovation of Rungstedholm , the home of Karen Blixen , now the Karen Blixen Museum (Rungsted Kyst)

Prizes and awards

• 1947: Honorary title Royal Designer for Industry from the Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce in London
• 1973: Heinrich Tessenow Medal
• 1977: CF Hansen Medal
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich
• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Scientists

Publications

• Blad ur livets dagbok . Skandinaviska förlag expeditions, Stockholm 1923.
• Britisk Brugskunst , 1933.
• London , 1934 and 1951 published in Denmark.
  • London, the Unique City , in English 1937. In abbreviated form as paperback : Pelican Books, London 1960.
• Nordic architecture: examples and thoughts on the architecture of our time in Denmark and Sweden . E. Wasmuth Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1940.
• Fra Akademiet paa Charlottenborg gennem to hondrede aar ; (For the bicentenary of the Danish Academy). Boghallen, Copenhagen 1953.
• Om at opleve arkitektur , 1957.
  • German, translated by Elisabeth Drugowitsch: Architektur Erlebnis . Krämer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7828-0456-2 .
• Britisk Brugskunst . Det Danske Art Industry Museum, GEC Gad, København 1965.
• Sig det med blomster. En nytaarsgave . Gyldendal, København 1976, ISBN 87-01-44021-7 stitched and ISBN 87-01-44022-5 .
• Theater. Essays og Debat , GEC Gad, København 1979, ISBN 87-12-76677-1 stapled and ISBN 87-12-76679-8 bound.
• Steen Eiler Rasmussen: København. Et bysamfunds særprætg og udvikling gennem tidende . GEC Gads Forlag, København 1994, ISBN 87-12-02430-9 stitched and ISBN 87-12-02817-7 bound.

literature

• Olaf Lind: Architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen . Gyldendal, København 2008, ISBN 978-87-02-06821-4