Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the architecture firm Snøhetta. • Illustration — Kjetil Trædal Thorsen of Snøhetta at TEDxArendal, Norway, 2014
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- 1958 · Haugesund hospital.
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- Norway
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- architect
- Honours
- Commander of the Order of St. Olav · Global Award for Sustainable Architecture · Grosch medal · Prince Eugen Medal
- Languages
- Norwegian
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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the architecture firm Snøhetta. • Illustration — Kjetil Trædal Thorsen of Snøhetta at TEDxArendal, Norway, 2014
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History
Thorsen was born on 14 June 1958 on the Norwegian coastal island of Karmøy. After several years in Germany and England, he studied architecture in Graz, Austria. He had practiced at the office of Espen Tharaldsen (Arbeidsgruppen Hus) in Bergen (1982–1983), Ralph Erskine in Stockholm (1983–1984) and David Sandved in Haugesund (1985). In 1987, he formed an architectural practice in Oslo with a group of young architects. They named it Snøhetta after the tallest mountain in the Dovrefjell National Park.
Designs
Designs
Thorsen led several award-winning design competitions for public buildings around the world. He led the Snøhetta teams designing the museum built for the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, the 2007 Serpentine Gallery temporary Pavilion in London designed with Olafur Eliasson, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Alexandria, Egypt, and the new Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway. He was a founder of Norway's foremost architecture gallery, Galleri Rom in 1986.
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Associations
Thorsen had been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck since 2004.He will Chair the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for region Europe.
Decorations and honorary degrees
• 2008 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav • 2010 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture • 2011 Honorary doctor (dr.h.c.) of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) • 2013 Prince Eugen Medal for architecture
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen of Snøhetta at TEDxArendal, Norway, 2014
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- 1.Kunnskapsforlaget. Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. Store norske leksikon. 29 mai 2009.
- 2.Intervenants du Forum ArchiFest 2010.
- 3.Kunnskapsforlaget. Snøhetta Arkitektur Landskap as. Store norske leksikon. Oslo. 29 mai 2009.
- 4.David. Owen. The Psychology of Space. The New Yorker. 2013-01-13. 0028-792X. 2025-04-26.
- 5.Kjetil Thorsen - Seit 2010 Mitglied der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Sektion Baukunst. sur le site de lAkademie der Künste
- 6.Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine.
- 7.Sustainable design II, Vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville. Actes Sud. 2011. 978-2-330-00052-3.
- 8.kjetil trædal thorsen: snøhetta between context and content. aut.cc. 2008-06-05.
- 9.Prix Holcim 2025. Architects' Journal. 14 octobre 2024.
- 10.Nomination à l'Ordre de Saint-Olaf. La Maison royale de Norvège. 13 juin 2008.
- 11.Prix mondial de l'architecture durable. Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine.
- 12.harvsp Anon 2014
- 13.Prix International Architecture Bois 2025 au Forum International Bois construction. 2025-04-17. 2025-04-26. Forum International Bois Construction. 38:13.
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