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

Nils Slaatto Nils Slaatto (22 June 1922 – 16 March 2001) was for more than two decades one of Norway's most prominent and influential architects, having a strong and distinctive impression on Norwegian architecture. Slaatto cooperated with Kjell Lund in ...

for many years.

Personal life

Lund was born in

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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

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whence he graduated in 1950. The architectural firm of Lund & Slaatto Arkitekter AS founded in 1958 as a partnership of Kjell Lund and

. This firm was in operation until 1995. Among their designs are Asker City Hall (''Asker rådhus'') and

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, 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 () on Enerhaugen in Oslo, Norway, not far from the former medieval St. Hallvard's Cathedral, is the location of the largest current parish in the Catholic Church, parish of the Catholic Church in Norway. The Cat ...

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, Oslo, Grønland. The site is located on a hill just so ...

. The Roman Catholic facility was awarded the

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in 1975. Lund was an honorary member of the organizations National Association of Norwegian Architects, the

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and the

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. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the

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in 1985, and also awarded the

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. 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