texaco gas station, skovshoved, denmark. architect: arne jacobsen, 1937. this building shows jacobsen's debt to asplund in how thoroughly all aspects of the design are worked out. jacobsen spent some summers in the 1930's with asplund. he later said that before meeting asplund, he thought he could work out the design lying on the couch, but asplund taught him that architecture was nothing but hard work. asplund is the true father figure of nordic architecture, yet of all the great modernists only jacobsen had a real teacher-pupil relationship with him. jacobsen's works of the late 30's are som‹›
Skovshoved Petrol Station

Arne Jacobsen

Exterior · Gentofte Municipality, Denmark · 1936

Photo: seier+seier · 2005-07-23 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2964×2448

texaco gas station, skovshoved, denmark. architect: arne jacobsen, 1937. this building shows jacobsen's debt to asplund in how thoroughly all aspects of the design are worked out. jacobsen spent some summers in the 1930's with asplund. he later said that before meeting asplund, he thought he could work out the design lying on the couch, but asplund taught him that architecture was nothing but hard work. asplund is the true father figure of nordic architecture, yet of all the great modernists only jacobsen had a real teacher-pupil relationship with him. jacobsen's works of the late 30's are som

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