Malene Hauxner

Malene Hauxner (18 September 1942 – 18 January 2012)[1] was a Danish landscape architect, author and educator and professor of Theory, Method and History at KVL, Denmark. Hauxner enjoyed a reputation as an unrivaled analyst of landscape architecture in the context of the breakthrough and subsequent transformations of modernism. Her first book Fantasiens Have was published in 1993 considers the early modernist breakthrough from the 1930s while her book Open to the Sky (in Danish as Med himlen som loft) published in 2000 took modernism through its second breakthrough between 1950 and 1970. A third volume is anticipated covering the period 1970 to the 1990s.

Since 2005, Hauxner was the driving force behind the symposia, World in Denmark which brings together academics and practitioners of international standing in fields related to landscape architecture. She died after a long illness in a hospice in her native Frederiksberg in 2012.

Awards

She received the Nykredit Architecture Prize in 2003 and the N. L. Høyen Medal in 2004.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bridger, Jessica (23 January 2012). "Malene Hauxner, 1942 - 2012". International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Topos Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Yildelinger". Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
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