Hans Christian Hansen (20 April 1803 – 2 May 1883) was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis.

…its most fitting civic expression: Hans Christian Hansen, a friend of Bindesbøll, excavated and restored the ancient Greek monuments on the Acropolis and built the University (1839–50). This crisp Ionic building eventually formed a group with the National Library and the Academy of Science, which were added from designs by…

Contrary to the eventful Hanssted School and Ringbo Nursing Home, his final buildings are silent and enigmatic, none more so than Svanemøllen. Hansen’s dense web of verticals across the elevation is immediately recognizable; we have seen it …

Hansen, Hans Christian (1803–83). Distinguished Danish Neo-Classicist, the brother of T. E. Hansen, he was influenced early in his career by C. F. Hansen (to whom he was not related), and by G. F. Hetsch, who brought the influence of Schinkel to the architectural world of Denmark.

Distinguished Danish Neo-Classicist, the brother of T. E. Hansen, he was influenced early in his career by C. F. Hansen (to whom he was not related), and by G. F. Hetsch, who brought the influence of Schinkel to the architectural world of Denmark.

Oct 30, 2020 · Hans Christian Hansen (1901 – 1978) was a Danish modernist architect. He first worked as a carpenter in 1919, graduated from Odense Technical School in 1923, and went to the Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture to become an architect in 1928.

Three years after the german occupation, Hans Christian Hansen designed a small kindergarten for an old private garden recently purchased by the municipality. He was well into his forties and had been a job architect with the municipal architects department since receiving a gold medal from the academy ten years earlier.

This PhD thesis presents the built works of the Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen (HCH, 1901-1978) who worked at the office of the city architect in Copenhagen between the late 1930’s and early 1970’s.