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Erik Møller (7 November 1909 – 24 March 2002) was a Danish architect. Møller used to work with the famous Danish architect and designer
Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Hon. FAIA (; 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to functionalism (architec ...
. Together they won the competition to design the new City Hall in Aarhus, which was built from 1938 to 1942. At the same time they built another town hall in
Søllerød Søllerød is a suburban district of Rudersdal Municipality in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village, one of the oldest in the area, is perched on Søllerød Hill on the south side of Søllerød Lake. It merged with ...
. From 1955 to 1956 they built the City Hall in
Rødovre Rødovre () is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Capital Region of Denmark, Region Hovedstaden. The town's population 1 January 2019 was 39,907, and in addition 145 persons had no fixed address, which made up a ...
. This was the first construction with a curtain wall in Denmark. (List of Projects) His description of Jacobsen's SAS Royal Hotel project as a "glass cigar box" was widely used later on.Jeff Chu:
Happy Birthday, Arne Jacobsen
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1909 births 2002 deaths Modernist architects from Denmark Artists from Aarhus Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal {{Denmark-architect-stub