Steen eiler rasmussen biography definition
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen
American architect
Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hon. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danisharchitect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry.
He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947.
Steen eiler rasmussen biography definition
Early life and education
Steen Eiler Rasmussen was born on 19 February 1898 in Copenhagen to Lieutenant colonel and later general Christian Rasmussen and Anna Dorthea (Dori) Jung. He first apprenticed as a mason and then studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918.
In 1919 he set up his own practice.[1]
Architecture and urban planning
It was mainly as an urban planner that he made his name. He was part of the Danish Urban Planning Laboratory from 1924, as the Academy Council's representative, and its leader from 1942 to 1948.
From 1932 to 1938 he worked at Copenhagen Municipality's Departme