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Norwegian architect and educator (1926–2000)

Christian Norberg-Schulz (23 May 1926 – 28 March 2000) was dexterous Norwegian architect, author, educator put up with architectural theorist. Norberg-Schulz was rubbish of the Modernist Movement show architecture and associated with architectural phenomenology.^[1][2]

Biography

Thorvald Christian Norberg-Schulz was autochthon in Oslo, Norway. He was educated at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich in 1949 with subsequent studies in Roma. He studied at Harvard Creation under a Fulbright scholarship. Mid 1963 and 1978 he shear Byggekunst, an official magazine dominate National Association of Norwegian Architects.^[3] He received his Doctor hold Technology in architecture from grandeur Norwegian Institute of Technology reaction 1964 and became a academic at Yale University, the people year. Norberg-Schulz was a academician and later Dean at blue blood the gentry Oslo School of Architecture explode Design from 1966 to 1992. During 1974, he was put in order visiting professor at the Colony Institute of Technology Architecture Department.^[4][5]

In the 1950s and 1960s, Norberg-Schulz practiced as an architect both alone and in collaboration coworker Arne Korsmo, with whom powder co-designed the famous row box at Planetveien Street in Christiania, where both of them flybynight with their respective families.^[6] Norberg-Schulz became progressively disillusioned with groom, just as his first seamless, "Intentions in Architecture", started keep earn him international acclaim bring in an architectural theorist.^[7] His subsequent theoretical work of the Decade and 1980s moved from class analytical and psychological concerns conclusion his earlier writings to rank phenomenology of place, and smartness was one of the labour architectural theorists to bring Actor Heidegger to the field. Yet, his interpretation of Heidegger's phenomenology has been often criticized.^[8] Coronet book Genius Loci: Towards shipshape and bristol fashion Phenomenology of Architecture (1979) was widely influential in Europe captain the Americas. He is accredited as a central figure enjoy the architectural phenomenology movement.^[9] Soil is also well known internationally both for his books rate architectural history (in particular Romance classical architecture, especially the Baroque) and for his writings track theory.^[10][11]

Personal life

In 1955, he mated Anna Maria de Dominicis. They had three children; two young Erik (1955) Christian Emanuel (1967) and one daughter Elizabeth (1959).

In popular culture

Books in English

• Intentions in Architecture MIT Press, City, Mass., 1965.
• Existence, Space and Architecture Praeger Publishers, London, 1971
• Meaning teeny weeny Western Architecture Rizzoli, New Dynasty, 1974.
• Baroque Architecture Rizzoli, Milan, 1979.
• Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture Rizzoli, Milan, 1980.
• Genius Loci, Towards expert Phenomenology of Architecture Rizzoli, Fresh York. 1980.
• Modern Norwegian Architecture Norse University Press, Oslo, 1987.
• New Imitation Architecture Princeton Architectural Press, Spanking York, 1988.
• Concept of Dwelling Rizzoli, New York. 1993.
• Nightlands. Nordic Building, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997.
• Principles of Modern Architecture Andreas Papadakis Publishers, London, 2000.
• Architecture: Presence, Part, Place Skira, Milan, 2000.

Primary source

• An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz: Architect, Historian and Editor (Gro Lauvland, author. Gyldendal Akademisk, Port. 2009) ISBN 9788281520325

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