Christian Norberg-Schulz (23 May 1926 – 28 March 2000) was a Norwegian architect, author, educator and architectural theorist.
Between 1963 and 1978 he edited Byggekunst, an official magazine of National Association of Norwegian Architects.
[4][5] In the 1950s and 1960s, Norberg-Schulz practiced as an architect both alone and in collaboration with Arne Korsmo, with whom he co-designed the famous row houses at Planetveien Street in Oslo, where both of them lived with their respective families.
[7] His later theoretical work of the 1970s and 1980s moved from the analytical and psychological concerns of his earlier writings to the phenomenology of place, and he was one of the first architectural theorists to bring Martin Heidegger to the field.
[8] His book Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (1979) was widely influential in Europe and the Americas.