Thorvald Astrup

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Thorvald Astrup (18 May 1876 – 12 August 1940) was a Norwegian architect, particularly known for industrial architecture.

Born in Oslo (Christiania), he was educated at Christiania Technical School in 1891-92, and Christiania Fine Art School the following year; he also attended Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg from 1896-97. In 1899 he started to work as an architect, and was soon specializing in industrial constructions, particularly related to power production and transmission, factories and dams; many monumental installations were built in neoclassic or functionalistic style. These include Såheim Power Station in Rjukan (1916), Tyssedal Power Station^[1] (1906), while the administration building for Norsk Hydro in Rjukan is built in jugendstil. Astrup also designed all the railway stations on Tinnosbanen and Rjukanbanen.^[2]

References

↑ See also Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry
↑ Payton, Gary and Lepperød, Trond (1995). Rjukanbanen; på sporet av et industrieventyr (in Norwegian). Rjukan: Mana Forlag. p. 203.

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Name	Astrup, Thorvald
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Short description	Norwegian architect
Date of birth	18 May 1876
Place of birth
Date of death	1940
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