Hans Jacob Hansteen is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Hans Jacob Hansteen as Norwegian architect.
Hans Jacob Hansteen was born at Stavanger in 1938. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at Norwegian Institute of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Norway shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Achievements
- Trained at Norwegian Institute of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology
