Sverre Fehn

(1924-2009)

Biography
1924 1948 1949 1952 Born on 14th August 1924. Graduated from Oslo School of Architecture. During this time Fehn travelled to Morocco where he discovered the Primitive style of Architecture that influenced his later works. He joined PAGON (Progressive Architects Group of Oslo, Norway) He got married to Ingrid Loberg Pettersen and remained married until her death in 2005 He gained a scholarship to study with the French architect Jean Prouv, where he learnt 1953 skills on lightweight construction. Set up his own studio after returning back to Oslo. Received international for his Norwegian Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium Completed the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Became a professor in Architecture at the Oslo school of Architecture which he had previously been a student of. The Hedmark museum was completed (Bispegaard Museum) The Glacier museum was completed He left the school of architecture in Oslo because of practice work The Aukrust Centre was Completed Received The Pritzker Prize and the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal Completed an addition to his earlier glacier museum The Publishing office of Gyldendal Headquarters, Oslo was completed He completed the Norwegian museum of Architecture 24th February 2009 he Died in Oslo -

1954 1958 1962 1971 1979 1991 1995 1996 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009

Nordic Pavilion, Biennale in Venice

(1958-62)

Villa Schreiner, Oslo (1959-63)

Hedmark Museum, Hamar (1967-79)

Norwegian Glacier Museum, Fjaerland (1989-91)

Aukrust Center, Alvdal (1993-96)

Gyldendal Headquarters, Oslo

(1995-2007)

The National Museum of Architecture, Oslo (1997-2008)

Books
Written By Sverre Fehn
The Poetry of the straight line
by Sverre Fehn (January 1992)

The Skin, the Cut and the Bandage

by Sverre Fehn & Michael Hopkins (January 1997)

The Secret of the Shadow: Light and Shadow in Architecture

by Tadao Ando, Sverre Fehn & Gerhard Wolf (September 2002)

Written About Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn: The thought of construction
by Per Olaf Fjeld (December 1983)

Sverre Fehn Works, Projects, Writings 1949-96

by Christian Norberg-Schulz & Gennaro Postiglione (March 1998)

Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of thought

by Per Olaf Fjeld (May 2009)

Awards
1973 1982 1993 1994 1997 Norwegian Wood Award Prince Eugen Medal for Outstanding Artistic Achievement from the King of Sweden Le Grande Medaille dOr dArchitecture Academie dArchitecture, Paris Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Pritzker Architecture Prize Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal Arts Council Norway, Honorary Prize The first to be awarded the Grosch Medal The Anders Jahre Culture Prize

1998 2001 2003 -

Honorary Fellow, the Royal Academies in Copenhagen and Stockholm Honorary Fellow of the Architects Associations of Norway, Finland, Scotland, Britain and America