Jakob Parelius Holmgren (1884—1962) was a Norwegian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and a professor of architecture at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

from 1935 to 1955. He designed, among other things, the redevelopment of the interior of Trondhjems Sparebank from 1921 to 1924, which later won the Houen Foundation's prize in 1927. Holmgren was educated at

in 1903. He was hired soon after by Lars Solberg in Trondheim as an assistant architect. From 1904-1907, he worked on many buildings in Ålesund to help rebuild after the great city fire there. He started his own architecture practice in Trondheim starting in 1907. He designed a number of tenements in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

that were built in the style of

Neoclassical architecture Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

. He designed the

Brattvær Church Brattvær Church ( no, Brattvær kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the tiny hamlet of Brattvær, just south of the larger village of Råket on the west ...

Smøla Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hopen, other villages include Dyrnes, Råket, and Veiholmen. The municipality i ...

and was part of the historic restoration of the

Stiklestad Church Stiklestad Church ( no, Stiklestad kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Verdal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Stiklestad. It is one of the churches for the Stiklestad parish which is part ...

from 1928-1930.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmgren, Jakob Parelius 1884 births 1962 deaths Architects from Trondheim Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology