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Holscher, Knud
(b Rødby, 6 May 1930). Danish architect. Working with Arne Jacobsen from 1960 to 1964, he planned and supervised the construction of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. In 1967 he won first prize in the competition for Odense University (first phase completed 1973) for the firm Krohn & Hartvig Rasmussen, with which he then became an associate. The project was based on clear structural principles and carefully detailed industrial elements; the façade is constructed of Cor-Ten steel. After 1973, within the same firm, Holscher worked with the architect Svend Axelsson (b 1937). They produced a long series of buildings of distinct and polished architectural quality, many the result of competition entries. They include the swimming baths in Lyngby (1977) and Farum (1979), the extension to the Royal Theatre (1985), Copenhagen, the expansion of Copenhagen Airport (1986) in Kastrup, a commercial and domestic block on Jægersborg Allé (1988), Charlottenlund, and the Bahrain National Museum (1988) in Manama. Holscher also designed armature series and building components that won him international prizes. From 1968 to 1987 he was a professor at the Arkitektskole of the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen.
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