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133: 25: 357:, first published in Danish in 1957 and in English in 1959. Underlining the importance of a first-person, embodied experience of architecture - including its shape, color, scale, proportion, rhythm, textural effects, daylight and sound - the book may be regarded as a classic in 272: 549: 380:) in 1937. When this edition was re-issued in 1948, Rasmussen had added two Postscripts: "For English readers only", and "For American readers only". A shorter version was published as a paperback in 1960. 539: 249: 544: 287:
to Lieutenant colonel and later general Christian Rasmussen and Anna Dorthea (Dori) Jung. He first apprenticed as a mason and then studied architecture at the
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On 15 June 1934 he married Karen Margrethe Schrøder (12 November 1904 - 31 March 1985), daughter of economist and later Danish National Bank manager
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from 1924, as the Academy Council's representative, and its leader from 1942 to 1948. From 1932 to 1938 he worked at
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Through his involvement in the Urban Planning Laboratory, he was an important part of the process which led to the
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Rasmussen was a lecturer at the Academy from 1924 and became a professor in 1936. Among his students were
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which has governed the overall development of suburban Copenhagen ever since. He also co-planned the area
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town (yellow brickstone and greens) with C.Th. Sørensen in Copenhagen North West, as well as the town
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It was mainly as an urban planner that he made his name. He was part of the
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Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
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Academic staff of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
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from 1916 to 1918. In 1919 he set up his own practice.
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen was born on 19 February 1898 in
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og Astrid Koefoed. He is the father of the linguist
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