Henning Larsen

Selected honoury offices and medals

The Stockholm Award, 2001
Honorary Doctor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Architectural Award of the Dreyer Foundation, 1999
The Kasper Salin Award, Sweden, 1997
Honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA
Honorary member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
Honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA
Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1989
Architectural Award of the Velux Foundation
The Prince Eugén Medal, Sweden, 1986
The C.F. Hansen Medal, 1985
The Eckersberg Medal, 1965

Facts

FOUNDER
Henning Larsen Architects, 1959

EDUCATION
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, 1950
The AA School of Architecture, London, 1951-52
MIT School of Architecture, Boston, 1952

PROFESSORSHIPS
Professor of architecture, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1968-95
Adjunct professor, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1958-68
Appointed professor of architecture, School of Architecture in Trondheim, Norway, 1967
Visiting professor of architecture, Aarhus School of Architecture, 1966
Visiting professor of architecture, Princeton, School of Architecture, 1965
Visiting professor of architecture, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, 1964

MEMBER OF
The Danish Architects' Association
The National Association of Norwegian Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects
The Association of German Architects BDA
The Planning Board, Kuwait

BORN
1925

LANGUAGES
Danish, English, German

Selected projects

The Copenhagen Opera, Denmark, commission, inaugurated 2005
Adolf Würth Museum, Germany, first prize in invited competition, 1997, completed
Nordea Headquarters, Denmark, first prize in invited competition, 1995, completed
Malmø City Library, Sweden, first prize in invited competition, construction period 1994-97
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, first prize in invited competition, 1991, construction period 1994-95
Copenhagen Business School and Dalgas Have, Denmark, first prize in invited competition, 1986-88
The Danish Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, commission, completed 1987
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, first prize in competition, constructed 1982-84
Gentofte Library, Denmark, first prize in invited competition, construction period 1984-85
University of Trondheim , Norway, best project in competition, construction period 1974-78
Stockholm University , Sweden, first prize in competition, 1961, not completed
The school, Klostermarkskolen, Roskilde, Denmark, best project in open competition, completed 1965

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