{"id":6600,"date":"2020-06-02T21:56:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=6600"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:14:01","slug":"the-hamsun-centre-is-a-battlefield-of-invisible-forces","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/the-hamsun-centre-is-a-battlefield-of-invisible-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hamsun Centre is a Battlefield of invisible forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tThe Hamsun Centre is something as rare as a building in which the architecture interprets literature. The American architect Steven Holl lets us take part in the dark, large, disturbing, challenging and unsettling novels of Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun. Join us on a journey into the .\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

It is accepted that a building should harmonise with, and blend into, the landscape. The Hamsun Centre doesn’t \u2014 on the contrary, it conflicts with both architectural practice and the landscape at Hamar\u00f8y. Hamsun was not a man who lived in harmony with the Norwegian literary landscape. The architect Steven Holl designed the Hamsun Centre like a body. Its windows are like eyes, the lift shafts are the backbone and the 13-foot (4-metre) bamboo poles on the roof are the hair. In this way, the tower is like a giant sculpture in the Hamar\u00f8y landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunger, Pan, Mysteries and Victoria inspired the architectural design <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The American architect Steven Holl had not read Hamsun before he was commissioned to design the Hamsun Centre. As part of the process, he read all the novels that were translated into English, and then viewed all the 17 film versions that have been made. Holl was particularly fascinated by the early novels Hunger, Pan, Mysteries and Victoria. These form the basis of the architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n

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