Christian norberg schulz biography definition

(–).

Norwegian architect, theorist, and historian.

Christian norberg schulz biography definition

Influenced by Giedion, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe, he was a convinced Modernist, believing that it was the only valid currency of C20, so his contribution to the history of Baroque and Rococo architecture and his concerns with the genius loci are all the more remarkable.

In , under Giedion's influence, he founded (with Korsmo, Fehn, and others) PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) in order to provide an independent Norwegian delegation to CIAM, and, with Korsmo, designed three glass-and-steel houses (–5) on a hill near Oslo, in which the rigid grid and the architectural treatment were clearly influenced by the work of Eames and Mies van der Rohe.

He edited (–78) the architectural journal Byggekunst, and (also in the s) began his long career teaching at Oslo School of Architecture following the publication of his influential Intentions in Architecture (), a book in which he investigated th