Jean-Jacques Baruël

Jean-Jacques Baruël was born in 1923 in Aarhus, Denmark. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen in the 1940s under Kay Fisker and Edvard Thomsen at a time when the early 1930s Functionalism movement had already given way to a functional tradition, a term coined by Professor Kay Fisker as a specific distinction from the Functionalist movement.

As one of Denmark’s most notable architects of the second half of the 20th century alongside Arne Jacobsen, Jorn Utzon, Wilhelm Whlert and Jrgen Bo, Erik Christian Srensen, Halldor Gunnlgsson, Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke Nielsen or Knud Peter Harboe, Jean Jacques Baruel’s significance is largely attributable to three significant accomplishments: the Aalborg Art Museum