Alfred Mogensen

Alfred Mogensen was a Danish architect and a City Architect of Aarhus. Alfred Mogensen was educated as a carpenter at Aarhus Technical School and worked as such between 1916-20. He found employment in various architect firms in Aarhus and Copenhagen and worked as the building inspector for Kaj Gottlob during the construction of St. Luke's Church between 1921 and 1926. In 1925 he was hired by the City Architects office in Aarhus. He worked there until 1943 when was he himself was appointed to the position of City Architect, aposition he held until 1968.^[1][2]

Alfred Mogensen left a distinct mark on the city of Aarhus and worked on the forefront of modern school architecture. His most well-known works are the former Main City Library in Mølleparken, a project he won in a contest along with Harald Salling-Mortensen, and Strandparken, a residential apartment complex built in 1935-38. Strandparken is an early example of an apartment complex with free-standing blocks separated by green open spaces and inspired the later and very similar Blidahpark in Charlottenlund.^[2]

Alfred Mogensen designed 3 public elementary school. Skovvangskolen from 1933–37, Møllevangskolen from 1945–51 and Vorrevangskolen from 1953-60. Skovvangskolen and Møllevangskolen was jointly designed with Harald Salling-Mortensen. Møllevangsskolen is the first time in Danish school architecture when class rooms are designed with dual external light sources. The design called for a sloping ceiling the rise towards the back of the class room where large ceiling windows are installed and illuminated by skylights. Vorrevangsskolen also exemplified modern school architecture in the overall shape of the school with many perpendicular wings and small courtyards in between.^[2]

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  Strandparken

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  Mølleparken

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  Skovvangskolen

References

External references

• Alfred Mogensen on Wikimedia commons