Steen Jorgensen
Jægersborg, 1944
Jorgensen admired Poul Henningsen s theories, the evolution of which he explained in his book Logical Luminosity. In it, he stated: "the world of light is a world of visions. In order to go into this world of visions, it is necessary to have observation skills, that is, to be able to become aware of visual perception". Steen Jorgensen was born in Jaegersborg, Denmark, in 1944. He studied architecture in the School of Architecture of Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1972. He became a member of the Academic Association of Architects in Denmark, and a...
Jorgensen admired Poul Henningsen s theories, the evolution of which he explained in his book Logical Luminosity. In it, he stated: "the world of light is a world of visions. In order to go into this world of visions, it is necessary to have observation skills, that is, to be able to become aware of visual perception". Steen Jorgensen was born in Jaegersborg, Denmark, in 1944. He studied architecture in the School of Architecture of Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1972. He became a member of the Academic Association of Architects in Denmark, and a lighting consultant to the Danish National Heritage, for which he undertook the lighting projects of the Royal Chapel and the Supreme Court in Copenhagen. Since 1973, this Danish architect moved to Palma de Mallorca, where he continued with his studies on light design and with the teaching he had already started in the School of Architecture of Copenhagen. His dream to create beautiful things out of light deserved him many awards, such as the competition for the contemporary art museum of Bornholm, together with architects Lene Tranberg and Boje Lundgaard, or the competition for the Museum of Modern Art of Kolding, with architect Jens Fredslund. Jorgensen has designed many lamps, domestic as well as urban, that are a result of his in-depth analysis on the technical basis of lighting. In 1976, his Conics lamp (currently edited by the firm Louis Poulsen) won the Concurso de Diseño de Luminarias para Centros Históricos (Outdoor Lighting Design Competition for Historic Urban Centers.) Jorgensen received many awards throughout his career: in 1989, for instance, he won an award for his lighting project of Stockholm districts with his Variabel Translucens lamps. His Steen 9-13 lamps is edited by Santa & Cole, it is a lamp that creates a soft and magical light, is an attempt to achieve the perfect light, and was selected by the ADI FAD in 1997. As an interior designer, some of his works that stand out are the lighting project of various halls at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, and the lighting project of the Gammel Dok of Denmark (Denmark s architecture center) with his Globe lamp.Jorgensen is also the author of the book Lysende Logik (edited in Spanish as Luminosidad Lógica by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), as well as of the article “Lighting criteria for town-planning projects”, published by the Danish Ministry of the Environment. He collaborated too with the NYT magazine and other specialized in lighting magazines in his career. Steen Jorgensen passed away in Palma de Mallorca, in 1992.
