Victor Nordan (born 13 May 1862 in Christiania,

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; died 8 May 1933 in

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) was a Norwegian architect, known for his many hospital buildings and also for designing nine churches. Nordan was the son of architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. He served as his father's assistant from 1881 to 1884. He then received his education at the

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) from 1884 to 1885. During these years in

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he worked as an assistant at an architectural firm there. From 1886 to 1887 he studied at the Königlich Technische Hochschule in

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. When Nordan returned to

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, he worked with his father until his death in 1892. After that, he took over the business. He focused his work as a hospital architect, and it was in this area that his business became most significant. The hospital buildings from the time around the turn of the century are characterized by

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with simple facades where most of the articulation is done in yellow and red brick. The later hospital buildings are influenced by

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and Nordic neo-baroque. In 1926, his son Per Nordan joined his business where he worked until Victor's death in 1933.

Works

* Grymyr Church (1899) *

Heskestad Church Heskestad Church ( no, Heskestad kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lund Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Heskestad. It is the church for the Heskestad parish which is part of the Dala ...

(1904) * Evenstad Church (1904) *

Dikemark Hospital Dikemark Hospital is a psychiatric hospital with 170 patients in Asker, Norway. The hospital was owned and managed by the municipality of Oslo but has been a part of Ullevål hospital since 2001. It was opened in 1905, when the city council of Chr ...

(1905) *

Bjordal Church Bjordal Church ( no, Bjordal kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Høyanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bjordal. It is one of the two churches for the ''Bjordal og Ortnevik'' parish whi ...

(1906) * Plassen Church (1907) * Holøydal Church (1908) *

Kroken Church Kroken Church ( no, Kroken kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located the Kroken borough in the city of Tromsø. It is the church for the Kroken parish which is pa ...

(1910) *

Haukeland University Hospital Haukeland University Hospital ( no, Haukeland universitetssjukehus) is a hospital in Bergen, Norway, and one of the eleven institutions that make up Bergen Hospital Trust. Haukeland is the largest in Norway in terms of number of patients, and serv ...

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(1911) * Hæstad Church (1913) *

Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. It was an independent hospital, ''Rigshospitalet'', later spelled ''Rikshospitalet'' ("The National Hospital"), from 1826 to 2009 ...

women's clinic (1914) *

Stavanger University Hospital Stavanger University Hospital (Norwegian: ''Stavanger Universitetssjukehus'', SUS) is located in the neighborhood of Våland in Stavanger, Norway. Stavanger University Hospital is one of Norway's largest hospitals with more than 7500 employees. T ...

(1916) * Lykling Church (1916) *

Elverum Hospital Elverum Hospital ( no, Elverum sykehus) is a general hospital situated in Elverum, Norway. It is part of Innlandet Hospital Trust, part of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Aut ...

(c. 1920) * Ullevål Hospital in

(1926)

References

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