Rudolf Emanuel Jacobsen is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Rudolf Emanuel Jacobsen as architect (1879–1937).
Rudolf Emanuel Jacobsen was born at Oslo in 1879. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at KTH School of Architecture.
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 Doblouggården, Bytårnet, Moss and 1914 Jubilee Exhibition. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Rudolf Emanuel Jacobsen died in 1937, aged 58. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Doblouggården
- Notable work: Bytårnet, Moss
- Notable work: 1914 Jubilee Exhibition
- King's Medal of Merit in Gold
- Trained at KTH School of Architecture
