Arne Jacobsen

Arne Emil Jacobsen
Birthday	Tuesday, February 11, 1902
Birthplace	Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	Wednesday, March 24, 1971
Nationality	Danish

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Jacobsen, Arne

 

Born Feb. 11, 1902, in Copenhagen; died there Mar. 24, 1971. Danish architect of the functionalist school.

Jacobsen graduated from the school of the Technical Society in 1924 and from the Copenhagen Academy of Arts in 1927; he became a professor at the academy in 1956. His works include the Bellavista housing complex and theater (1931), the first functionalist buildings in Denmark. He also designed the Stellings Building (1937), the Jespersen Building (1955), and the SAS airline terminal and hotel (1959–61), all of which are in Copenhagen. In Gentofte he designed a stadium and a complex of row houses (1947–49).

REFERENCE

Faber, T. Arne Jacobsen. Stockholm, 1964.

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