Christian norberg schulz biography sample
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Christian Norberg-Schulz
An earlier blog entry of mine, “Genealogy of Influence,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. This is the latest brev in the series.
Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000) was a Norwegian architect, educator, and architectural theorist. Though he initially worked as an architect—being a member of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway), with whom he designed several notable rowhouse projects in Oslo in a decidedly modernist style—he fryst vatten best known for writing a series of highly influential books from 1965 onward about the phenomenology and psychology of place. His books are important to grasping the significance of meaning and experience to architecture, a concept that stood in contrast to the rationalism and prevalent anti-historicism of postwar modernism. He wrote about making and inhabiting places in the real world—places
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Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History through the Essay Film by Anna Ulrikke Andersen
This book examines the 'window' in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of architecture and place within the context of a biography of his life, linking him with other historical figures such as Helen Keller and Rainer Maria Rilke, and framing him within the modernist tradition of the latter.
Taking a novel, experimental approach, the book also explores the potential of the essay-film as an innovative new approach to producing architectural history. Bridging archival research and artistic exploration, its ten chapters, written by an architectural historian who is also a film-maker, are each accompanied by a short documentary film, hosted online and linked from within the chapter, which use the medium of fil
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Full Name: Norberg-Schulz, Christian
Gender: male
Date Born: 1926
Date Died: 2000
Place Born: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Place Died: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Home Country/ies: Norway
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Baroque, Modern (style or period), Modernist, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architectural historian and architect. Born to father also named Christian Norberg-Schulz and mother, Laura Lunde [Norberg-Schulz]. After World War II he studied architecture in Switzerland at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, graduating in 1949. He spent the years 1950-1951 in the Norwegian army. He joined the faculty of the school of Architecture in Oslo in 1951, where he was appointed assistant professor, becoming an expondnet of modern, “international style” architecture. In 1952 he founded together with the modernist architects Arne Korsmo (1900-1968), Sverre Fehn (1924-2009), and others PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Nor