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Article: Centenary celebration. (View).(architect Arne Jacobsen discussed)(Brief Article)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Arne Jacobsen was one of the defining architects of the twentieth century. He translated the traditional Danish Classical sensitivity to the Modern age.
This is thc centenary month of Arne Jacobsen's birth, and his lifework is celebrated in two exhibitions in Denmark, (1) and a new book. (2) The hook's two authors, professors at the Danish Royal Academy, cover the whole extraordinary variety of Jacobsen's expression, and chronicle his life from the days when he went to America as a cabin boy on a liner to his final years as the grand old man of Danish architecture.
Jacobsen was one of the two Scandinavian Modernists most sensitive to the essence of ...