Steen Eiler Rasmussen

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

Life

Rasmussen made ​​after school hours first trained as a mason before studying architecture in 1916 recorded at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1918. In 1919 he founded his architectural firm. He won two contests for its town planning work for Ringsted and Hirtshals in the same year. From 1922 to 1934, and 1938 he was a member of the twelve-member Council of the Academy of Arts. Since 1924 he was a representative of the Academy in Dansk Byplanlaboratorium, the Danish town planning laboratory, and this was as a deputy and chairman until 1948.

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

Career

Since 1924, Rasmussen was a lecturer in urban planning at the Academy, in the years 1938 to 1968 he was professor at the Academy of Architecture. 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 School of Architecture of the Academy. From 1932 to 1938 he worked in the building department of Copenhagen in the town planning department.

Planning work

  • Employees on the finger plan with which the development of Copenhagen and its surroundings was planned.
  • Assisting in the planning for the city Tingbjerg in København NV, 6 km north-west from the center of Copenhagen.
  • Ditto in the planning of Hørsholm, 25 km west of Copenhagen.
  • Hall of Ringsted, award-winning 1933 and 1935, carried out in 1995.
  • Mødrehjælpen ( Mothers Fund ), in København Ø.
  • 1938: His own house in Hørsholm.

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Blad ur Livets dagbok. Skandinaviska förlagsexpeditionen, Stockholm 1923.
  • Britisk Brugskunst, 1933.
  • London, 1934 and 1951 moved to Denmark. London, the Unique City, in English in 1937 in an abbreviated form in paperback. Pelican Books, London 1960.
  • German, translated by Elisabeth Drugowitsch: architectural experience. Krämer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7828-0456-2.
Heinrich Tessenow Medal C. F. Hansen Medal Charlottenborg Palace Integrated Authority File
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