In the history of building, Henrik Nissen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Henrik Nissen as Norwegian architect (1848–1915).
Henrik Nissen was born at Christiania in 1848. His recorded nationality is Norway.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Arneberg Church, Atneosen Church and Furuset Church. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of St. Olav.
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.
Henrik Nissen died in 1915, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Arneberg Church
- Notable work: Atneosen Church
- Notable work: Furuset Church
- Notable work: Skrukkeli Chapel
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav
