ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses aspects of the work of the celebrated Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn. As a founding member of the Progressive Architects Group, Oslo, Norway (PAGON), the Norwegian offshoot of the Congress International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) (Fjeld 2009: 29), Fehn's position within the twentieth-century Modernist canon is indisputable. He was part of the post-Second World War generation of European architects who both subscribed to Modernist ideas of progress, and who expressed them through the particular spatial and material strategies which they deployed in their buildings, and in this sense it can be said that his approach was typical of many architects of the period. Fehn's work achieved a rare level of refinement, and in recognition of this he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1997.
