Henning Larsen was born on August 20, 1925 in Jutland. He started his working career as a carpenter, then studied architecture in Copenhagen, Great Britain and the USA. The Dane also began working as an architect in America - after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Larsen collaborated with Grassold & Johnson in Milwaukee for several years. In 1959, Henning Larsen opened his own bureau Henning Larsen Architects in Copenhagen: to date, the studio has completed about 100 architectural projects that brought her and her founder worldwide fame.
Among the most famous buildings of Larsen are the Malmö City Library (Sweden), the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, the School of Architecture in Umeå (Sweden), the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, the Spiegel Group headquarters in Hamburg. From 1968 to 1995 Henning Larsen was also a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating several generations of talented young architects and designers. And in 2001, the architect founded a charitable foundation designed to promote the popularization of modern architecture in the broadest sense of the word.
Henning Larsen has won numerous professional awards. One of the latest was the Praemium Imperiale award from the Japan Art Association (2012), the jury of which named the architect an unsurpassed "master of light", emphasizing that in modern architecture he is one of the world's leading specialists in the construction of buildings, in the appearance and interior of which natural light is maximized …
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