ARNE HENRIKSEN

Within the framework of the events FΑR NORTHERN REFRACTIONS OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE

In collaboration with the Embassy of Norway and the Norwegian Institute

The series of events “FAR NORTHERN REFRACTIONS OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE” provided an opportunity to present the contemporary architectural trends of the Northern European countries in Greece and to explore the differences between countries that at first glance seem to share a timeless homogeneity. This apparent similarity is shaped by the common natural environment, political and social conditions, standard of living, and even the available local building materials.

On behalf of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture, I wish to thank the Embassies and Institutes of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland for their invaluable assistance, and especially Professor Andreas Giakoumakatos, who conceived the idea for the events and bore overall responsibility for their realization. Finally, I thank the staff of the HIA and its director Marianna Milioni for the entire organization and for editing the publication accompanying the lectures and exhibitions.

Kalogeras, Emeritus Professor NTUA, President of HIA

ARNE HENRIKSEN

He was born in 1944 in Søndre Land. He studied at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris and at the School of Architecture in Trondheim. During the 1980s, he worked as the director of architectural services for the Norwegian Railways, and from 1989 to 1992 taught at the Oslo School of Architecture. Since the late 1980s, he has also maintained an architectural practice in Oslo. Henriksen also chose to experiment with the postmodern idiom, which in Norway left few notable examples. Within this framework, he designed the Holmlia railway station on the outskirts of Oslo (1988), and the smaller Lodalen station in the same city (1991); both projects won Norway’s most prestigious architectural award, the Houens Fund Architectural Award. Moving beyond postmodernism, Henriksen studied, among other works, the station at Sandvika near Oslo and the Slependen station. Here, his plastic and constructive inventiveness broadened from modernism toward a new “medievalizing” aesthetic, while emphasizing the use of wood as a primary building material. Henriksen’s work spans a wide variety of public and private buildings, and he is also very active in the field of urban design.

Arne Henriksen’s work has been published in leading European architectural magazines. He has participated as a juror in international architectural competitions and has taught at architecture schools worldwide, from France and the Netherlands to Mexico and Japan