Sverre Fehn
Norwegian architect
The Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn was born in Kongsberg on 14 August 1924. Fehn graduated from the Norwegian School of Architecture in Oslo in 1949.
Front figure in international modernism
Sverre Fehn is regarded as a front figure in international modernism. He combines constructive rationality and poetic insight with a great sense of form. Fehn is a prominent representative of the formally determined purism in architecture.
Oslo College of Architecture
From 1971 to 1994 Sverre Fehn was professor at the Oslo College of Architecture. He has been awarded on several occasions. Those include the Nobel prize for architecture, the Pritzker prize in 1997 and the Grosch medal in 2001.
Important buildings by Sverre Fehn
Some of his most important buildings are: The Norwegian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels (1958), the Nordic pavilion at the Biennale in Venice (1958), the North Cape church (1965), the Oslo School for the Blind (1976), the Villa Busk in Bamble (1990), the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjaerland (1992), the Aukrust Museum in Alvdal (1996) and the Ivar Aasen Centre in Orsta (2000).
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