Architect, Norway Sverre Fehn began his career after graduating from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1949. He is one of a number of post-World War II Norwegian architects who believed in bestowing universal modernism with both regional and site-specific values, espousing an architecture that, while always rational, recognized local crafts and culture, mythology, and folklore. His concerns with the topography of the site, climate, local identity, and tectonics are central to issues of both regionalism and phenomenology in architecture. In 1950, Fehn joined the Progressive Architect’s Group of Oslo, Norway (PAGON), a division of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), along with his former teacher Arne Korsmo, architectural theorist Christian NorbergSchulz, and design collaborators Grung and Ostbye, among others. CIAM was a network concerned with how ideas of modern architecture and town planning were communicated internationally. Although CIAM had no direct influenc...