Knud Arne Petersen practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Knud Arne Petersen as architect.
Knud Arne Petersen was born at Copenhagen in 1862. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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 Nimb Hotel. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Knud Arne Petersen died in 1943, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Nimb Hotel
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
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