{"id":21650,"date":"2025-07-28T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/?p=21650"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:58:18","slug":"knud-holscher-is-still-a-significant-figure-in-khrs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/knud-holscher-er-doed-en-markant-skikkelse-i-khrs-historie\/","title":{"rendered":"Knud Holscher has died - a significant figure in KHR's history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jan S\u00f8ndergaard had a close relationship with Knud Holscher, who was his teacher both at the School of Architecture and at KHR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jan S\u00f8ndergaard remembers Knud Holscher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

ByrumMonitor asked Jan S\u00f8ndergaard to write a eulogy for Knud Holscher because of their close professional relationship. Here are a few extracts and a brief insight into Knud's work:

After some educational years at Arne Jacobsen's design studio, Knud Holscher became part of KHR (then Krohn & Hartvig Rasmussen)<\/a> in the 1960s and quickly came to characterise the practice with his keen eye and open, undogmatic approach to the architectural profession. Jan S\u00f8ndergaard, who had Holscher as a professor at the School of Architecture and later as head of KHR, describes him as a teacher who left room for independent development and pushed projects forward with few, precise words:

\"He inspired with outbursts that were not immediately interpretable, and then you had to figure out how to do it better yourself.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Southern Denmark blends into the landscape thanks to Knud Holscher's structuralist approach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Structuralist thinking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of Knud Holscher's most significant contributions was the university building in Odense<\/a>. Jan describes how \"Knud's visionary ideas were based on structuralist thinking\", which became a modular system rolled out across the landscape - \"like a fishnet stocking with holes in it.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The result was a fusion of building physics and nature into a compelling whole.\" <\/em>The project made a big impression on Jan, who describes that meeting the material \"blew me away\".<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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University of Copenhagen South Campus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Strong collaborations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During the same period, Knud worked closely with Sven Axelsson and Erik S\u00f8rensen, and designed several of the projects that have shaped KHR's work, including
- Expansions at Copenhagen Airport<\/a>
- Copenhagen Metro<\/a>
- University of Copenhagen Amager<\/a> (KUA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan describes how, as a young man, he became involved in larger tasks, including National Museum of Bahrain<\/a>and how Knud's confident demeanour gave him a free hand for the task of The Danish Pavilion<\/a> to the World Expo in Seville: \"An intoxicating moment where I fully experienced Knud's great professional generosity.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With Holscher Design, Knud Holscher shifted his focus from architecture to industrial design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From architecture to design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his role as an architect and educator, Knud Holscher was also a significant figure in Danish design. In the late 1980s, he left KHR to focus fully on his own design company, Holscher Design. Here he created a series of iconic products in lighting, fittings and door handles that have achieved international recognition. His work was characterised by uncompromising precision and a deep respect for both function and aesthetics, leaving a lasting impression on both architecture and design.

Read the full eulogy in ByrumMonitor<\/a> or dive deeper into KHR's history on this page.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As a partner in KHR, Knud Holscher left his mark on a number of significant projects and shaped a generation of architects with his precise and generous approach. Jan S\u00f8ndergaard has written a personal tribute, which can be read in ByrumMonitor.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presseomtale","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21683,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650\/revisions\/21683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khr.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}