experiencing architecture by steen eiler rasmussen

A shorter version was published as a paperback in 1960. When this edition was re-issued in 1948, Rasmussen had added two Postscripts: 'For English readers only', and 'For American readers only'. It was first published in Danish in 1934, in English (as London, the Unique City) in 1937. One of his most important books was London. Ī prolific writer, Rasmussen's bibliography was published by librarian Finn Slente in 1973. Among his students were Jørn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, and Marian Pepler who designed rugs for Gordon Russell in the 1930s. Rasmussen was a lecturer at the Academy from 1924 and became a professor in 1936. Sørensen in Copenhagen North West, as well as the town Hørsholm.Īmong the buildings he has designed are Ringsted Town Hall, Mødrehjælpen (a social institution for women) in Copenhagen Ø and his own house in Rungsted Kyst Hørsholm, north of Copenhagen(1938).

He also co-planned the area Tingbjerg town (yellow brickstone and greens) with C.Th. Through his involvement in the Urban Planning Laboratory, he was an important part of the process which led to the Finger Plan which has governed the overall development of suburban Copenhagen ever since.

From 1932 to 1938 he worked at Copenhagen Municipality's Department for Urban Planning. He was part of the Danish Urban Planning Laboratory from 1924, as the Academy Council's representative, and its leader from 1942 to 1948. It was mainly as an urban planner that he made his name. He first apprenticed as a mason and then studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. Steen Eiler Rasmussen was born on 19 February 1898 in Copenhagen to Lieutenant colonel and later general Christian Rasmussen and Anna Dorthea (Dori) Jung. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (1947)

Experiencing architecture by steen eiler rasmussen