Kjell Lund (18 June 1927 – 17 August 2013) was a Norwegian architect, songwriter and singer. Lund cooperated with Nils Slaatto for many years.

Personal life

Lund was born in Lillehammer as a son of civil servant Arve Johan Lund and Margit Tora Hornes. He married Tove Berg in 1954. He died in August 2013.

Career

He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology whence he graduated in 1950. The architectural firm of Lund & Slaatto Arkitekter AS founded in 1958 as a partnership of Kjell Lund and Nils Slaatto. This firm was in operation until 1995. Among their designs are Asker City Hall (''Asker rådhus'') and Chateau Neuf, a

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at the

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. They also designed the popular system ''Ålhytta'', a module based construction system developed in 1969. They also designed several churches. Among these is the

St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery ( no, St. Hallvard kirke og kloster) on Enerhaugen in Oslo, Norway, not far from the former medieval St. Hallvard's Cathedral, is the location of the largest current parish of the Catholic Church in Norway. The ...

Enerhaugen Enerhaugen is today a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway which among others includes six apartment buildings on Tøyen in the borough of Gamle Oslo, located north of the neighborhood of Grønland. The site is located on a hill just south of Tøyen ma ...

. The

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facility was awarded the

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in 1975. Lund was an honorary member of the organizations

National Association of Norwegian Architects The Association of Norwegian Architects ( no, italic=no, Norske arkitekters landsforbund, NAL) is a country-wide Norwegian organization for graduate architects. Established in 1911, as of 2015 the organization had some 4,100 members. In addition to ...

, the

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and the

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts ( sv, Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, archite ...

. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the

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in 1985, and also awarded the

Prince Eugen Medal The Prince Eugen Medal ( sv, Prins Eugen-medaljen) is a medal conferred by the King of Sweden for "outstanding artistic achievement". The medal was established in 1945 by the then King of Sweden, Gustaf V, in connection with the eightieth birthd ...

. Among his best known songs are ''Her kommer guttemusikken'' and ''Den store sinte svarte skumle katta til fru Haugen''.

References

1927 births 2013 deaths People from Lillehammer 20th-century Norwegian architects Norwegian songwriters Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal {{norway-architect-stub