In the history of building, Knud V. Engelhardt is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Knud V. Engelhardt as Danish architect and designer (1882–1931).
Knud V. Engelhardt was born at Copenhagen in 1882. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as designer and architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Eckersberg Medal.
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 V. Engelhardt died in 1931, aged 49. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Eckersberg Medal
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
