Holger Sinding-Larsen practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Holger Sinding-Larsen as Norwegian architect (1869–1938).
Holger Sinding-Larsen was born at Christiania in 1869. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at Technische Universität Berlin.
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 and urban planner.
Among his best-known works are Vålerenga Church and Holmenkollen Chapel. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Fridtjof Nansen Award for outstanding research, historical-philosophical class and 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.
Holger Sinding-Larsen died in 1938, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Vålerenga Church
- Notable work: Holmenkollen Chapel
- Fridtjof Nansen Award for outstanding research, historical-philosophical class
- King's Medal of Merit in Gold
- Trained at Technische Universität Berlin
