Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland as Norwegian architect (1866–1926).
Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland was born at Stavanger in 1866. 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.
His best-known building is Gamlehaugen. 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.
Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland died in 1926, aged 60. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Gamlehaugen
- Trained at Technische Universität Berlin
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