Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect. In 1987, he co-founded the Snøhetta i.s. company, and has been active in many aspects of the company’s projects.[1]
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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen was born 14 June 1958 on the Norwegian coastal island of Karmøy. After several years abroad in Germany and England, he studied architecture in Graz, Austria.[2] He had practiced at the office of Espen Tharaldsen (Arbeidsgruppen Hus) in Bergen (1982–1983), Ralph Erskine in Stockholm (1983–1984) and David Sandved in Haugesund (1985). [3]
Thorsen has been involved in design and led several award winning design competitions for public buildings in Europe and around the world including the new art museum built for the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway [1], the 2007 Serpentine Gallery temporary Pavilion in London designed with Olafur Eliasson, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Alexandria, Egypt [2], and the new Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway. [2] He was a founder of Norway’s foremost architecture gallery, Galleri Rom in 1986.[4]
Thorsen is a member of the Norwegian Architectural Association (NAL) and has served on their Design Competition Committee. He has served as Juror on various design competitions in Europe and has been involved in several architecture and design symposia worldwide.
Since 2004, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture at the University of Innsbruck.[4]