Lorentz Harboe Ree i Vi fra NTH 1910-1919

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Lorentz Harboe Ree (12 March 1888– 8 March 1962) was a Norwegian architect. Ree was born at

Stange is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebye ...

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, Norway. He graduated from 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 ...

in 1915. He first worked as an architectural assistant in

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(1916–17). He had his own architectural firm in

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(now Oslo) from 1918. He worked together with Harald Aars (1875–1945) from 1919 and from 1920 with Carl Emil Buch (1892-1968). Most of the buildings he designed were raised in the Oslo districts of

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and St. Hanshaugen as well as the neighborhood of

Bislett Bislett is a neighbourhood in the St. Hanshaugen borough in north-central Oslo, Norway. It is internationally famous for the Bislett Games, held at Bislett Stadium. Bislett has also become known to non-Norwegians due to being the home of the f ...

. His style was often in neo-baroque, although he also preferred

neo-classic style 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 ...

. His main work was the Vigeland Museum (''Vigeland-museet'') for which he was awarded the

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together with Carl Buch in 1926.

Selected works

*Statens Skogskole,

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(1923) *Kinopaléet (1923–24) *Nore I kraftverk in

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(1925–26) * Ullevål stadion (1925–26) *Leiegård, Bygdøy allé 85 (1929) *Villa for

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, Sogn hageby (1931) *Townhouse, Ottar Birtings gt. 7–9 (1932) *Townhouse, Majorstuvn. 17 (1935) *Leiegård, Gabels gt. 46/Vestheimgt. 6 (1936–37) *Leiegård, Frederik Stangs gt. 35 (1940) *

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gymnas (1954)

Gallery

File:Nore I.jpg, Nore I kraftverk in Buskerud File:Bislet bad - 2013-03-31 at 16-01-58.jpg, Bislet Baths in Oslo, with Harald Aars File:Frederik Stangs gate 35.jpg, Frederik Stangs gate 35 in Frogner File:Vestre frikirke Oslo.jpg, Oslo Vestre Frikirke, with Harald Aars File:Bygdøy allé 34- 2010-04-03 at 15-16-48.jpg, Bygdøy allé 34 in Frogner

References

1888 births 1962 deaths People from Stange Architects from Oslo Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni {{Norway-architect-stub