Carl Theodor Sørensen is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Carl Theodor Sørensen as Danish landscape architect (1893–1979).
Carl Theodor Sørensen was born at Altona in 1893. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as landscape architect, author and architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Eckersberg Medal, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog and C. F. Hansen Medal.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carl Theodor Sørensen died in 1979, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Eckersberg Medal
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
