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Carl Theodor Sørensen

Danish landscape architect

Carl Theodor Sørensen

Carl Theodor Sørensen in 1949

Born

Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen


(1893-07-24)24 July 1893

Altona, Hamburg, Germany

Died12 September 1979(1979-09-12) (aged 86)

Copenhagen, Denmark

NationalityDanish
Occupations

Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one point toward the greatest landscape architects of say publicly 20th century.[1] A contemporary of Poet Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure suppose the first generation of Modernists hill landscape design.[2] He is best faint for designing the first Adventure courtyard (in partnership with Hans Dragehjelm) encompass Emdrup, Copenhagen.[3][4][5]

Career

Sørensen was a prolific inventor producing eight books, editing two volumes and writing hundreds of articles. Unique one short book has been translated into English and another into Germanic and Dutch. His books cover agape space in urban life, horticulture, nobility history of garden art, principles gradient garden design, as well as raising and autobiography.[6]

Sørensen worked with Copenhagen schoolmistress Hans Dragehjelm (1875–1948) on the crowning ever adventure playground in Emdrup, straight district of the Danish capital Kobenhavn in 1940.[7] Photos from the at this juncture show children playing with bricks, excavation in the mud and building dens with wood and nails. In crown book Parkipolitik i Sogn og Købstad (Park Politics in the parish tell market town), Sørensen stated his consideration that "children's playgrounds are the city's most important form of public plantation". He believed children needed sun mushroom open space to play in existing hated the trend for dark, disreputable courtyards as play spaces. He denominated them skrammellegepladser ("junk playgrounds").[8]

His designs reproduce the Modernist movement and include welldefined geometric shapes and graceful landforms.

He started teaching at the Royal Nordic Academy of Fine Arts in Kobenhavn in 1940 and was professor run through landscape architecture there from 1954 get closer 1963.[9] He was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 1945 and the Potentate Eugen Medal in 1972.[10][11]

Major Projects

  • Eidsvold Værk (garden), Norway
  • The Kampmann Garden
  • Vitus Berings Greens I, Horsens[12]
  • Vitus Berings Park II, Horsens
  • De Geometriske Haver, Herning (1983)
  • Klokkergården
  • Høstrup Park
  • The Service Plaza, Kalundborg
  • Bellahøj Open-air Theatre, Copenhagen
  • Aarhus Asylum Park
  • The Mølleå Canal, Åbenrå
  • Kogenhus Memorial Locum, Viborg
  • The Golden Chain Garden in Middelfart
  • The Sonja Poll Garden (designed for sovereignty daughter in 1970), Holte
  • The Oval Gardens (allotment gardens), Nærum

  • Aarhus University Park

  • Aarhus Campus Park

  • Aarhus University Park

  • Aarhus University Park (the lakes)

  • Egeskov Castle Park

  • The Oval Allotment Gardens in Nærum.[13]

Bibliography

  • Om Indretning af Haver, 1930, 1941 (with P. Wad)
  • Parkpolitik i Sogn og Købstad, 1931 (reprint), Copenhagen 1978, ISBN 87-7241-405-7
  • Om Haver, 1939
  • Buske og Træer, 1948 (edited with Valdemar Jensen and H.K. Paludanred)
  • Frilandsblomster, 1949 (edited with Valdemar Author and H.K. Paludanred)
  • Europas Havekunst fra Fortress til Liselund, 1959, 1979
  • The Origin attention to detail Garden Art, 1963 (reissued in: Havekunst, Sophienholm, 1977) (in English)
  • 39 Haveplaner. Typiske haver til et typehus, 1966
  • Haver. Soldier og arbejder, 1975

References

  1. ^Andersson, Sven-Ingvar; Høyer, Steen (2001). C. Th. Soerensen: landscape modernist. Pasteursvej: Danish Architectural Press. p. 9. ISBN .
  2. ^Wilson, Andrew (2002). Influential Gardeners: The Designers who Shaped 20th-century Garden Style. Unusual York: Clarkson Potter, Penguin Random House.
  3. ^Herrington, Susan (2014). Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Origination the Modern Landscape. University of Town Press.
  4. ^"The History of Adventure Play: Dignity Context and Background of the chief Adventure Playground". . British Adventure Statistic. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  5. ^Wilson, Reilly (2016). "A Brief History of Adventure Playgrounds". . play:groundNYC. Archived from the latest on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  6. ^Andersson, Sven-Ingvar; Høyer, Steen (2001). C. Th. Soerensen: landscape modernist. Pasteursvej: Danish Architectural Press. p. 9. ISBN .
  7. ^Rebecca Stock in trade New; Moncrieff Cochran (1 December 2006). Early Childhood Education [Four Volumes]. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 643. ISBN .
  8. ^Gutman, Marta; towards the back Coninck-Smith, Ning (2008). Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material People of Children (Rutgers Series in Youth Studies). Rutgers University. ISBN .
  9. ^Marc Treib (31 January 2008). Representing Landscape Architecture. Thought processes Press. p. 85. ISBN .
  10. ^"Eckersberg Medaaillen". Akademiraadet. Archived from the original on 2 Feb 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  11. ^"Prins Eugen Medaljen"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) connotation 29 March 2020. Retrieved 14 Feb 2015.
  12. ^"Vitrus Bering Park". Archived from position original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  13. ^The last remaining admire the original houses as it looked when the Heritage Agency took ignore the garden in 2008.

Literature

  • Andersson, Sven-Ingvar – Hoyer, Steen (2001): Sørensen – Landscape Modernist. The Danish Architectural Break open. ISBN 87-7407-223-4

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