Hjalmar Welhaven practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Hjalmar Welhaven as Norwegian architect (1850–1922).
Hjalmar Welhaven was born at Christiania in 1850. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and Leibniz University Hannover.
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 Eidsberg Church, Hærland Church and Mysen Church. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: King's Medal of Merit in Gold.
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.
Hjalmar Welhaven died in 1922, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Eidsberg Church
- Notable work: Hærland Church
- Notable work: Mysen Church
- Notable work: Trømborg Church
- King's Medal of Merit in Gold
- Trained at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and Leibniz University Hannover
