Kjetil Thorsen
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the architecture firm Snøhetta.[1]
History
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Thorsen had been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck since 2004.[citation needed]He will Chair the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for region Europe.[5]
Decorations and honorary degrees
[edit]- 2008 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav[6]
- 2010 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture[7]
- 2011 Honorary doctor (dr.h.c.) of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) [8]
- 2013 Prince Eugen Medal for architecture
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Snøhetta Arkitektur Landskap as". Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
- ^ a b c "Kjetil Trædal Thorsen". Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
- ^ "Speakers at the ArchiFest Forum 2010". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Owen, David (14 January 2013). "The Psychology of Space". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Holcim Foundation Awards 2025". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ Utnevnelse til St. Olavs Orden, The Royal House of Norway, 13 June 2008, retrieved 29 May 2009
- ^ "Global Award for Sustainable Architecture". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Anon 2014
Sources
[edit]- Anon (2014). "Honorary Doctors". NTNU (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
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