Torgeir Alvsaker (1875—1971) was a Norwegian

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. Alvsaker was born 9 February 1875 on the Alvsaker farm in

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. He attended the Bergen Technical School and graduated in 1898. He then became an assistant to architect Adolph Fischer in Bergen and then for the architect

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. From 1905 until 1916 he also worked as an architect in the

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. In 1916, he returned to Bergen where he set up his own architecture company. From 1948 to 1969, Alvsaker worked in partnership with architect

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, also based in Bergen. He died on 27 November 1971 in

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. In addition to designing houses in residential areas mostly in and around Bergen, he also designed several farm buildings, hospitals, old people's homes, schools, hotels, museums, and churches, working mainly in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alvsaker, Torgeir 1875 births 1971 deaths Architects from Bergen