List of Danish architects
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A list of notable architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

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Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. See also the list of Danish architectural firms.

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  • Ivar Bentsen
    Ivar Bentsen
    Ivar Bentsen was a Danish architect.-External links:*...

  • Axel Berg
    Axel Berg
    Dr. Axel Berg is a German politician and member of the SPD.Berg, MP for Munich-North, was the only directly elected member of the Bavarian SPD member in the Bundestag until his defeat at the 2009 German federal election....

  • Mathias Bidstrup
    Mathias Bidstrup
    Mathias Andreas Bidstrup was a Danish architect.He was born in Rønne, Bornholm, the son of cobbler Jorgen Bernhard Bidstrup and Marie Hansine Sonne. On the 17th April 1878 he married Cecilie Margrethe Bidstrup at the Sct. Nicolai Church in Rønne.From 1876 to 1916 he was a partner in the HP...

  • Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll
    Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll
    Michael Gottlieb Birckner Bindesbøll was a Danish architect active during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century. Most known for his design of Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, he was a key figure in the stylistic shift in Danish architecture from late classicism to Historicism...

  • Thorvald Bindesbøll
    Thorvald Bindesbøll
    Thorvald Bindesbøll was a Danish architect. He was one of Denmark's most important architects at the turn of the twentieth century....

  • Theo Bjerg
  • Martin Borch
    Martin Borch
    Martin Borch was a Danish architect.-Works:* Gisselfeldhusene,* Den Kongelige Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole ,* Landsarkivet i Århus ,...

  • Ernst Brandenburger
    Ernst Brandenburger
    Ernst Brandenburger was a Danish master builder and entrepreneur who, through his collaboration with Christof Marselis and Wilhelm Friedrich von Platen, left his mark on Danish Baroque architecture during the early reign of King Frederick IV.-History:Brandenburger was engaged as master builder...

  • Henrik Vilhelm Brinkopff
    Henrik Vilhelm Brinkopff
    Henrik Vilhelm Brinkopff was a Danish architect.-External links:*...

  • Carl Harald Brummer
    Carl Harald Brummer
    Carl Harald Brummer was a Danish architect who was influential in the design of homes at the beginning of the 20th century.-Biography:...

  • Max Brüel
    Max Brüel
    Max Brüel was a Danish architect and jazz musician, an accomplished pianist and saxophonist.He is the designer of Denmark's tallest building, the Herlev Hospital in Copenhagen .-References:...

  • Frederik Bøttger

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  • Adrian Carter
    Adrian Carter
    Adrian Carter is an English architect, Associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University , Denmark and Director of the Utzon Research Center in Aalborg. Carter also teaches at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Århus, Denmark...

  • Michael Christensen
    Michael Christensen (architect)
    Michael Christensen is a Danish architect, founder and head architect of Christensen & Co.-Biography:Michael Christensen was born in 1960. He graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1989. After working briefly at 3XN he joined Henning Larsen Architects, from 2001 to 2006 as partner and...

  • Sigurd Carl Christensen
  • Andreas Laurits Clemmensen
  • Mogens Becker Clemmensen

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  • Tobias Faber
    Tobias Faber
    Tobias Faber was a Danish architect. He was best known for his academic achievements, as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its director from 1954 to 1973...

  • Ole Falkentorp
    Ole Falkentorp
    -Early life and education:Ole Falkentorp was born into a family of architects on 18 February 1886 in Copenhagen. His father was Albert Jensen, architect, professor and Royal Building Inspector, and his mother Sophie Jensen née Nebelong, daughter of the architect Niels Sigfred Nebelong...

  • Ludvig Fenger
    Ludvig Fenger
    Ludvig Peter Fenger was a Danish architect. He was a proponent of the Historicist style and from 1886 to 1904 he was City Architect in Copenhagen....

  • Kay Fisker
    Kay Fisker
    Kay Otto Fisker was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is most known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent of the Danish Functionalism....

  • Erik Ellegaard Frederiksen
  • Frederik Ferdinand Friis
    Frederik Ferdinand Friis
    Frederik Ferdinand Friis was a Danish architect, professor and Royal Building Inspector. His most important work is the Horsens State Prison.-Early life and education:...


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  • Jan Gehl
    Jan Gehl
    Jan Gehl is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen and whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist.-Biography:...

  • Albert Rudolf Gjellerup
  • Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann
    Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann
    Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann was a Danish architect working in the Historicist style. His most notable works are St. Paul's Church and the extension of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, both in Copenhagen. He was the father of Kaj Gnudtzmann.-Early life and education:Johannes Emil...

  • Henrik Christopher Glahn
  • Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen
    Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen
    Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen is the leading architect of the Faroe Islands. He is also a graphic artist and author of publications about the Faroese church.-Life:...

  • Halldor Gunnløgsson

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  • Gustav Bartholin Hagen
    Gustav Bartholin Hagen
    Gustav Bartholin Hagen was a Danish architect. He was the father of the architect Ole Hagen.-Early life and education:...

  • Ole Hagen
  • Christian Hansen
    Christian Hansen (architect)
    Hans Christian Hansen was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis...

  • Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen , known as C.F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years...

  • Claudius Christoffer Hansen
  • Henning Hansen
  • Johannes Henning Hansen
  • Baron Theophil von Hansen
  • Harald Lønborg-Jensen
  • Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
    Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
    Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, also known as C.F. Harsdorff, , Danish neoclassical architect is considered to be Denmark’s leading architect in the late 18th century, and is referred to as “The Father of Danish Classicism”.- Early life and training :He was born Caspar Frederik Harsdørffer in...

  • Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen
  • Lambert van Haven
    Lambert van Haven
    Lambert van Haven was a Danish architect, master builder and painter. He was born in Bergen, the son of the artist Solomon van Haven who had already succeeded in winning the favour of the Danish monarchy....

  • Alan Havsteen-Mikkelsen
  • Elias David Häusser
    Elias David Häusser
    Elias David Häusser was a German-Danish architect working in the Baroque and Rococo styles. He is most known for designing the first Christiansborg Palace which was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1794...

  • Poul Henningsen
    Poul Henningsen
    Poul Henningsen , Danish author, architect and critic, was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars. In Denmark, he is often referred to as PH.-Early life and education:...

  • Thorkild Gustav Henningsen
  • Johan Daniel Herholdt
    Johan Daniel Herholdt
    Johan Daniel Herholdt was a Danish architect, professor and royal building inspector. He worked in the Historicist style and had a significant influence on Danish architecture during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century...

  • Gustav Friederich Hetsch
  • Hans Jørgen Holm
    Hans Jørgen Holm
    Hans Jørgen Holm was a Danish architect. A pupil of Johan Daniel Herholdt, he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a leading Danish proponent of the National Romantic style.-Biography:...

  • Knud Holscher
    Knud Holscher
    Knud Helmuth Holscher , Danish architect and industrial designer of international renown.-Biography:Holscher studied with Erik Christian Sørensen and professor Arne Jacobsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, graduating in 1957...

  • Niels Peder Christian Holsøe
  • Poul Holsøe
  • Tyge Hvass
  • Peter Hvidt
    Peter Hvidt
    Peter Hvidt was a Danish architect and furniture designer, co-founder of Hvidt & Mølgaard.-Biography:Hvidt was born in Copenhagen in 1916, the son of L. N. Hvidt, president of the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court. After completing his training at the Design School in Copenhagen, he worked at...

  • Eva Harlou

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  • Arne Jacobsen
    Arne Jacobsen
    Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...

  • Holger Jacobsen
    Holger Jacobsen
    Holger Jacobsen was a Danish architect. His best known work is Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.-Biography:Holger Jacobsen was born on 30 October 1876 in Odense...

  • Niels Jacobsen
  • Ewert Janssen
    Ewert Janssen
    Ewert Janssen or Evert Janssen was a Danish architect who became a royal masterbuilder in 1668. His greatest achievement was Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen.-Life and achievements:...

  • Holger Jensen
  • Jens Severin
  • Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint
    Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint
    Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time...

  • Erik Ole Jørgensen
  • Henning Jørgensen
  • Thorvald Jørgensen
    Thorvald Jørgensen
    Thorvald Jørgensen was a Danish architect, most known for his design of Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Parliament, after it had been destroyed in a fire. His other work mainly consists of churches. He was Royal Building Inspector from 1911 to 1938.-Biography:Thorval Jørgen was born...


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  • Hack Kampmann
    Hack Kampmann
    Hack Kampmann was a Danish architect. His parents were the priest Christian Peter Georg Kampmann and Johanne Marie Schmidt...

  • Jørgen Kastholm
    Jørgen Kastholm
    Jørgen Kastholm was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Preben Fabricius in the 1960s. The airport furniture he designed can now be seen in some 120 airports. In later life Kastholm was professor of design at Germany's Bergische Universität.-Biography:Born in Roskilde,...

  • Peter Kjær
    Peter Kjær (architect)
    Peter Krarup Kjær is rector of Umeå School of Architecture – and a part of Umeå University – in Umeå, Sweden, founded in 2009, when the new architecture programme started....

  • Kaare Klint
  • Ludvig Knudsen
    Ludvig Knudsen
    Ludvig Harald Knudsen was a Historicist Danish architect. He mainly designed churches, including St. Stephen's Church in Copenhagen's Nørrebro district.-Biography:Ludvig Knudsen was born on 18 August 1843 in Copenhagen...

  • Mogens Koch
    Mogens Koch
    Mogens Koch was a Danish architect and furniture designer and, from 1950 to 1968, a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was married to the weaver Eva Koch.-Early life and education:...

  • Jørgen Hansen Koch
    Jørgen Hansen Koch
    Jørgen Hansen Koch was a Neoclassical Danish architect. He was the leader of the national Danish building administration from 1835 and director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1849.-Biography:...

  • Valdemar Koch
    Valdemar Koch
    Otto Valdemar Koch was a Danish architect and local politician. He designed a number of churches in Copenhagen.-Biography:...

  • Peter Koch
  • Jens Christian Kofoed
    Jens Christian Kofoed
    Jens Christian Kofoed was a Danish architect who adopted the Historicist style inspired by Italian architecture from the Middle Ages...

  • Eva og Nils Koppel
  • Andreas Kirkerup
  • Johan Cornelius Krieger
    Johan Cornelius Krieger
    Johan Cornelius Krieger was a Danish architect and landscape architect, who from the 1720s served as both the country's chief architect, and head of the royal gardens....

  • Arne Kvorning
    Arne Kvorning
    Arne Kvorning is a Danish architect and designer, founder, owner and director of Copenhagen-based Kvorning Design & Communication.-Biography:...


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  • Philip de Lange
    Philip de Lange
    Philip de Lange was a leading Dutch-Danish architect who designed many different types of building in various styles including Dutch Baroque and Rococo.-Early life and family:...

  • Henning Larsen
    Henning Larsen
    Henning Larsen is a Danish architect.He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadhand the Copenhagen Opera House...

  • Karl Johan Frederik Larsen
  • Flemming Lassen
    Flemming Lassen
    Flemming Lassen was a Modernist Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style. Among his most notable buildings are libraries and cultural centres. He was the brother of Mogens Lassen, also an architect.-Early life:Flemming Lassen was born on 23 February 1901...

  • Mogens Lassen
    Mogens Lassen
    Mogens Lassen was a Modernist Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style. He mainly designed residential buildings, both in the form of single-family houses and apartment blocks...

  • Vilhelm Lauritzen
    Vilhelm Lauritzen
    Vilhelm Lauritzen was a leading Danish modernist architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.-Biography:...

  • J.C. Lillie
  • Tage Lyneborg
  • Eskild Bjerre Laursen

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  • Peder Malling
  • Dorte Mandrup
    Dorte Mandrup
    Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen is a Danish architect, founder and owner of the architectural practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter which is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Biography:...

  • Ferdinand Meldahl
  • Knud Munk
  • C.F. Møller
    C.F. Møller
    Christian Frederik Møller , generally referred to as C. F. Møller, was a Danish architect, professor and, from 1965 to 1969, the first rector of the Aarhus School of Architecture. His former practice, Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller, which he founded in 1924, still exists and bears his name...

  • Christian Jensen Mørup

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  • Johan Henrik Nebelong
  • Niels Sigfred Nebelong
    Niels Sigfred Nebelong
    Niels Sigfred Nebelong was a Danish architect who worked in the Historicist style. He was city architect in Copenhagen from 1863 and also designed many lighthouses around Denmark in his capacity as resident architect for the Danish lighthouse authority.-Early life and education:Niels Sigfred...

  • August J. Nielsen
  • Johan Rudolf Carl Nielsen
  • Johannes Magdahl Nielsen
  • Peter Christian Nielsen
  • Kim Herforth Nielsen
    Kim Herforth Nielsen
    Kim Herforth Nielsen is a Danish architect, co-founder and principal of 3XN.-Biography:Nielsen graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1981 and was one of the three Nielsen-founders in 1986...

  • Viggo Norn
  • Martin Nyrop
    Martin Nyrop
    Martin Nyrop was a Danish architect who designed the Copenhagen City Hall, the Vallekilde Højskole, and the majority of the buildings for the Nordic Industrial, Agricultural and Art Exhibition.-Selected buildings:...

  • Hans Næss
    Hans Næss (architect)
    Hans Pedersen Næss was a Danish architect from the island of Funen. Part of the generation of Neoclassical architect who was educated under Nicolas-Henri Jardin and C.F...


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  • Steen Ostergaard
  • Tage Olivarius
  • Hercules von Oberberg
    Hercules von Oberberg
    Hercules von Oberberg was a Dutch-Danish Renaissance architect. He was mainly active in the Duchy of Schleswig.-Biography:In his early years Hercules von Oberberg worked for Johann of Brandenburg-Küstrin but on 17 July 1557 he became Royal Building Master, succeeding Martin Bussert, but he only...

  • Anthonis van Obbergen
    Anthonis van Obbergen
    Anthonis van Obbergen was a Flemish architect and fortifications engineer...


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  • Einar Packness
  • Johannes Paludan
    Johannes Paludan
    -Biography:Paludan was the son of a prominent developer in Viborg, and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1938 after having completed a degree as a constructor in Århus....

  • Bernt Petersen
    Bernt Petersen
    Bernt Petersen , often known simply as Bernt, is a Danish furniture designer. Trained as a cabinetmaker , he attended Denmark's Design School, graduating in 1960. He then worked for Molibia and Hans J. Wegner before opening his own studio in 1963. He taught at Denmark's Design School and was...

  • Knud Arne Petersen
    Knud Arne Petersen
    Knud Arne Petersen was a Danish architect and director of Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen from 1899 to 1940. Apart from his engagement with Tivoli Gardens, where he created several prominent buildings, including the Chinese Tower and the Nimb complex, he was most active as an exhibition architect,...

  • Gunnar Biilmann Petersen
  • Ulrik Plesner
  • Georg Henry Ponsaing
  • Axel Preisler

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  • Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry...

  • Anton Rosen
  • Johann Gottfried Rosenberg
    Johann Gottfried Rosenberg
    Johann Gottfried Rosenberg was a German-Danish architect working in the Rococo style.-Biography:Johann Gottfried Rosenberg's exact date of birth is not known but he was christened on 20 October 1709 in Waldeck in the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In the 1730s, he was active in Schleswig-Holstein...

  • Holger Rosenkrantz
  • Henrik Ruse
    Henrik Ruse
    Henrik Ruse , later Baron Henrik Rysensteen , was a Dutch officer and fortification engineer...


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  • Carl Schiøtz
    Carl Schiøtz
    Carl Schiøtz was a Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Oslo...

  • K.T. Seest
  • Julien De Smedt
    Julien De Smedt
    Julien De Smedt is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural practice Julien De Smedt Architects Julien De Smedt (born 3 December 1975 in Brussels) is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural...

  • C.M. Smidt
  • Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
    Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
    Johann Otto von Spreckelsen was a Danish architect.He was born in Viborg and studied at the Viborg Katedralskole and Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, and later served as director up to his death....

  • Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder was a Flemish-Danish architect and sculptor. He worked on a large number of the most important Danish buildings of his time, although the exact scope of his contributions in many cases remains uncertain and much have been demolished or redesigned later...

  • Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger was a Flemish-Danish architect who specialised in the Dutch Renaissance style, typical of prestigious Danish buildings from the first half of the 17th century...

  • Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest
    Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest was a Danish architect and sculptor, son of Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger and grandson of Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder. Following in the footsteps of his farther and grand farther, be became a Royal Building Master in 1669...

  • Lorenz van Steenwinckel
    Lorenz van Steenwinckel
    Lorenz van Steenwinckel was a Flemish-Danish architect and sculptor, son of Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder and brother of Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger. From 1613, he was responsible for numerous projects commissioned by Christian IV...

  • Jon Stephensen
  • H.C. Stilling
  • Hermann Baagøe Storck
  • C.Th. Sørensen

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  • Hans-Georg Tersling
    Hans-Georg Tersling
    Hans-Georg Tersling was a Danish architect who lived and worked for most of his life on the French Riviera where he became one of the most significant and productive architects of the Belle Époque...

  • Edvard Thomsen
  • Lauritz de Thurah
    Lauritz de Thurah
    Laurids Lauridsen de Thurah, known as Lauritz de Thurah , was a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the late baroque period...

  • Christian Laurits Thuren
  • Holger Tornøe
  • Lene Tranberg
    Lene Tranberg
    Lene Tranberg is a Danish architect, head architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg.-History:Lene Tranberg was born in Copenhagen in 1956. In 1977, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture where she studied under Erik Christian Sørensen...

  • Hans Kai Turin-Nielsen
  • Frederik Vilhelm Tvede
  • Jesper Tvede

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  • Johannes Frederik Christian Uldall
  • Kjeld Juul Ussing
  • Susanne Ussing
    Susanne Ussing
    Susanne Ussing was a Danish artist, architect and ceramicist. The feminine world fascinated her. In 1989 she received the Eckersberg Medal.Some of her works:...

  • Jan Utzon
    Jan Utzon
    Jan Utzon is a Danish architect. The son of Jørn Utzon, with whom he worked closely on several prestigious projects, he has completed a number of fine works of his own including the Performing Arts Centre in Esbjerg.-Early life:...

  • Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

  • Kim Utzon
    Kim Utzon
    Kim Utzon is a Danish architect, son of Jørn Utzon-Biography:Kim Utzon was born in 1957 as the son of Pritzker Prize-winning Danish architect Jørn Utzon. He studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1976 to 1981. From 1986 he was part of Utzon Architects...


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  • Niels Wamberg
  • Hans J. Wegner
  • Otto Weitling
  • Heinrich Wenck
    Heinrich Wenck
    Heinrich Emil Charles Wenck was a Danish architect, known for the numerous railway stations he designed in his capacity of chief architect for the Danish State Railways from 1894 to 1921...

  • Vilhelm Wohlert
    Vilhelm Wohlert
    Vilhelm Wohlert was a Danish architect.Wohlert was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture, where one of his teachers was Kaare Klint. In 1958 he and his partner Jørgen Bo started work on the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a project on which they would work for...

  • V.C.H. Wolf
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