Architect
Educated at the School of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 1952.
Professor of architecture at the Academy from 1968 to 95. Awarded a large number of prizes and honours, including the Eckersberg Medal in 1965, the International Design Award 1987, and the Aga Khan Award in 1989.
Since its establishment in 1959, Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S has worked with modern design and in particular with furniture, lamps and building components in addition to participation in architectural design competitions and buildingprojects.
The lever handle was designed in 1996 by Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S and has since then been used in a large number of buildings, latest in the headquarters of Nordea Bank Denmark, Malmoe City Library, Roskilde University, and the Opera in Copenhagen.
