Gudmund Hoel was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after Paul Due

Paul Due

Paul Due was a Norwegian architect and significant contributor to the stations built by the Norwegian State Railways.-Biography:...

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Born in Kragerø

Kragerø

is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vestmar. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kragerø....

, Hoel graduated from Kristiania Tekniske Skole (today Oslo University College

Oslo University College

Oslo University College , Norwegian: Høgskolen i Oslo is the largest state university college in Norway, with more than 11,000 students and approx. 1100 employees...

) in 1896. For six years he had various assistant jobs at architecture firms in Norway and Germany. In 1904, he started working for Holger Sinding-Larsen

Holger Sinding-Larsen

Petter Andreas Holger Sinding-Larsen was a Norwegian architect.He was born in Oslo.In 1920 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games. He created a "Building plan of a physical culture school".Sinding-Larsen is the only Norwegian medalist in art competition.-External links:*...

, and in 1910 he established his own firm. In 1913, he was appointed director of the newly established NSB Arkitektkontor, an in-house division of the Norwegian State Railways. He remained director there until he retired in 1947. His early works were mostly in historicism, but from the 1920s he started designing in neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

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