Henning Larsen

Henning Larsen (1925-2013) was a Danish architect. In 1959 he started his own firm that designed many famous buildings, one of them being the opera building in Copenhagen. His architecture is firmly rooted in the Scandinavian design tradition. The first major project outside Scandinavia was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh. In the 1980s Larsen initiated the architectural journal SKALA and an architectural gallery of the same name. As a professor in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Larsen invited international architects, who were interviewed in SKALA, to give lectures in the academy. This came to have a great influence on the new generation of Danish architects who acquired a much greater international vision than previously. The journal existed for 10 years.