Kjetil Thorsen
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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the architecture firm Snøhetta.[1]
History
Thorsen was born on 14 June 1958 on the Norwegian coastal island of Karmøy. After several years in Germany and England, he studied architecture in Graz, Austria.[2] He had practiced at the office of Espen Tharaldsen (Arbeidsgruppen Hus) in Bergen (1982–1983), Ralph Erskine in Stockholm (1983–1984) and David Sandved in Haugesund (1985).[3] In 1987, he formed an architectural practice in Oslo with a group of young architects. They named it Snøhetta after the tallest mountain in the Dovrefjell National Park.[4]
Designs
Thorsen led several award-winning design competitions for public buildings around the world. He led the Snøhetta teams designing the museum built for the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway,[1] the 2007 Serpentine Gallery temporary Pavilion in London designed with Olafur Eliasson, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Alexandria, Egypt,[2] and the new Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.[2] He was a founder of Norway's foremost architecture gallery, Galleri Rom in 1986.
Associations
Thorsen had been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck since 2004.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".He will Chair the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for region Europe.[5]
Decorations and honorary degrees
- 2008 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav[6]
- 2010 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture[7]
- 2011 Honorary doctor (dr.h.c.) of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)[8]
- 2013 Prince Eugen Medal for architecture
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