Steen Eiler Rasmussen

Steen Eiler Rasmussen studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Jørn Utzon is recorded as having studied under Steen Eiler Rasmussen. The recorded working language is Danish. Employment is recorded with Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Positions recorded include professor and lector. Distinctions recorded are Honorary craftsman, Heinrich Tessenow Medal, Holberg Medal and C.

• Name — Steen Eiler Rasmussen • Born — 9 January 1898 • Birthplace — Copenhagen, Denmark • Died — 19 June 1990 • Place of death — Copenhagen, Denmark • Significant Buildings — Tingbjerg • Awards — Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (1947) Heinrich Tessenow Medal (1973) C. F. Hansen Medal (1977)

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.

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 Department for Urban Planning. Through his involvement in the Urban Planning Laboratory, he was an important part of the process which led to the Finger Plan which has governed the overall development of suburban Copenhagen ever since. He also co-planned the area Tingbjerg town (yellow brickstone and greens) with C.Th. Sørensen in Copenhagen North West, as well as the town Hørsholm. Among the buildings he has designed are Ringsted Town Hall, Mødrehjælpen (a social institution for women) in Copenhagen Ø and his own house in Rungsted Kyst Hørsholm, north of Copenhagen(1938).

Rasmussen was a lecturer at the Academy from 1924 and became a professor in 1936. Among his students were Jørn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, and Marian Pepler who designed rugs for Gordon Russell in the 1930s.

On 15 June 1934 he married Karen Margrethe Schrøder (12 November 1904 - 31 March 1985), daughter of economist and later Danish National Bank manager Frederik Carl Gram Schrøder og Astrid Koefoed. He is the father of the linguist Una Canger. He was a close friend of the author Karen Blixen.

• London, the Unique City (1937) • Towns and Buildings (1951) • Experiencing Architecture (1959).

Steen Eiler Rasmussen is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation urban planner. Recorded as architect, designer, writer, university teacher and urban planner.