Co-founder and partner in Gehl Architects, Jan Gehl, has received the highest honour from the Danish Arts Foundation, the lifelong grant
01. September 2009
Co-founder and partner in Gehl Architects, Jan Gehl, has received the highest honour from the Danish Arts Foundation, the lifelong grant.
Few, if any, have in modern times had such a fundamental influence on our understanding
and on the development of the public realm as Jan Gehl, it reads in the motivation
from the Danish Arts Foundation. The Foundation hails Jan as a standard bearer
for the importance of architecturally well functioning public spaces and public
realms for more than 30 years. "Jan Gehl is one of Denmarks most prominent urban
planning architects and he is a beacon on an international scale. His theories
on life between buildings have had, and continue to have, a massive influence
on the development of sustainable urban environments globally."
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