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The biography of Arne Jacobsen

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Arne Jacobsen is one of the most known Scandinavian architects and furniture designers of the 20th century with pieces such as the Ant, the Swan and the Egg, as well as buildings such as the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and the Saint Catherine’s College in Oxford.

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Arne Jacobsen trained in masonry before he began studies at the Copenahagen Technical College from where he graduated in 1924, and continued to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen until 1927. In 1925, aged only 23, Jacobsen won a silver medal at the Paris World Fair for the design of the Parisierstolen (eng. the Paris Chair).

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From 1927 until -30 Jacobsen worked in the architectural studio of Paul Holsoe, whereafter he founded his own studio. In 1927 Jacobsen and fellow architect Flemming Lassen won a competition to design a House of the Future. The winning entry was the Circular house that was constructed for the Housing and Building Exhibtion at the Forum in Copenhagen.

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In 1930(32) Jacobsen began desig

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Arne Emil Jacobsen

JACOBSEN, ARNE EMIL (1902–1971), Danish architect. Jacobsen was born and educated in Copenhagen. When he was a student, neoclassicism dominated Danish architecture, but Jacobsen's meetings with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe at exhibitions in Paris and Germany had an enormous effect on his work. His first houses, inspired by Le Corbusier, caused a sensation, and in 1936 he designed and built a series of housing units with staggered perspectives giving all the apartments a good view and a share of sun and light. This established him as Denmark's leading architect. After World War II the Søholme housing scheme established him internationally. He refused to specialize, and designed a wide variety of buildings, including town halls, a stadium, office blocks, and private houses. In 1959, he began to build St. Catherine's College, Oxford. During the same period he completed the famous SAS block in Copenhagen for Scandinavian Air System (1960), using glass curtain walls. In this building and in others Jacobsen designed also the furnishings and appurt

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In his contributions to Danish modern architecture, industrial design, exhibition design, and urban design, Scandinavian architect Arne Jacobsen demonstrated a broad understanding of the role of good design in life, from the scale of kitchen implements to the scale of the housing estate. He had the opportunity to work on a tremendous range of building types, from the mundane to the honorific, and he endowed all with a sense of the sublime: factories, laboratories, offices, schools, sports facilities, housing, and town halls.

Jacobsen completed the typical course of study for an architect in Denmark, beginning with academic high school, technical college, and finally the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture) in Copenhagen. This path included an apprenticeship to a bricklayer and study tours to France, Italy, and Germany. Jacobsen received his professional degree in 1927 and was awarded the 1928 Lille Guldmedalje (Small Gold Medal) for the design of a National Museum in Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen.

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