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Sverre Fehn was natural within Kongsberg, Norway, on August 14 1924. He received his architectural education shortly after WWII in Oslo, and quickly became a leading Norwegian designer of his generation.

At a age of 34 Fehn gained international recognition for his project of the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition. In the 1960s he produced two works that stand remained highlights within his career: a Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Hedmark museum in Hamar, Norway.

A architect’s greatest international honour come around 1997, when he was awarded two a Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal.

Bibliography

A Secret of the Shadow: Weak & Shadow around Architecture, 2002 by owning writings by Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn, A poetry of the straight line =: Den rette linjes poesi, 1992 Per-Olaf Fjeld, Sverre Fehn on the Thought of Construction, Rizzoli International, 1983 Yukio Futagawa, Sverre Fehn. Glacier Museum. A Aukrust Centre, within "GA Document 56", 1998 Sverre Fehn. Studio Holme, inside "GA Houses 58", 1998

Fehn, Sverre (1925- )
Pritzker Architecture Prize site offers a biography and photograph of the Norwegian architect, photo gallery and chronology of his work, and 1997 citation by the jury.