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Larsen, Henning (Göbel)
(b Videbæk, Jutland, 20 Aug 1925). Danish architect. He trained in Denmark, with Eduardo Catalano at the Architectural Association in London (1950–51), and with Pietro Belluschi in Cambridge, MA, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1952). He collaborated (1951–2) with Arne Jacobsen on design projects such as the Ant (Myren) chair, and on building projects such as the school at Hårby and the first sketches of the Jespersen House, Copenhagen. From the mid-1950s he was in the forefront among competition prizewinners, at first in partnership with Gerhrdt Bornebusch, Max Brüel (b 1927) and Jørgen Selchau (b 1923), and after 1959 on his own. He won prizes for the competition for universities in Stockholm (1951), Berlin (Freie Universität, 1964) and Trondheim in Norway (1970). Despite various other awards, few of his projects were realized until the late 1970s: the first stage of Trondheim University was completed in 1978, the extensions to the Freie Universität, Berlin, between 1976 and 1982. Two distinctive Danish competition projects from 1978, Høje Tåstrup County School and Gentofte Library, were opened in 1981 and 1985 respectively. One of Larsen’s most important works, the Foreign Ministry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was completed in 1984 after a competition in 1979–80.
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