Sverre Fehn: The place as a support

Abstract

Sverre Fehn, the 1996 Pritzker prize-winner, is well known for his sensibility in dealing with the place and extracting lessons that respect it together with architecture that has been introduced there. A responsible follow-up of his works shows changing operations from demanding reflections that have a tendency towards the synthetic simplicity, as if his proposals for that place have always been there: something quite difficult in the rough and beautiful Norwegian landscape that demands different strategies, variable in its development and that can be seen clearly in a global vision.