Louis Hygom

Louis Hygom (4 October 1879 14 January 1950) was a Danish architect active in the first half of the 20th century. He designed the Svanemølle Power Station in Copenhagen as well as two extensions to H. C. Ørsted Power Station.

Early life and education Hygom was born on 4 October 1879 in Copenhagen, the son of physician Frantz Carl Claus H. and Christine Mathea Nielsen. He attended Copenhagen Technical School and completed a mason's apprenticeship in 1899. He briefly attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1903–1905 but discontinued his studies to pursue practical training in the studios of city architect Ludvig Fenger and P.V. Jensen-Klint.

Career

Hygom started his career by working as an executing architect for a number of other architects, including Axel Preisler (Dansk Folkeforsikringsanstalt) and Ulrik Plesner (Hafnia Building). In 1899, he was a co-founder of Den Frie Arkitektforening. In this early part of his career, he was strongly influenced by trends in British architecture, such as Hamstead Garden Suburb (1907) and Baillie Scott's Houses and Gardens (1912). In the 1920s, he increasingly relied on Neoclassicism for inspiration. Later in his career, he mostly designed larger housing estates in a restrained functionalist style. Transformatorstation, Sydhavns Plads 6 (1949) Transformatorstation, Valby Langgade 2