Erik Hansen (architect)

Erik Hansen (13 May 1927, Ribe - 31 December 2016, Copenhagen) was a Danish Professor Emeritus, Architect in Building Preservation and an author; who has achieved international recognition for his contributions to archaeological conservation.

[1] Over the years, he has participated in investigative field work, mainly in Denmark and Greece, but also other countries [Afghanistan, Cambodia and Turkey], always adopting a highly systematic and methodical approach and producing widely acclaimed drawings of his finds.

Erik Hansen was only very young, only five years old, when he lost his parents and was raised by his aunt Karen and uncle Jeppe in the villa behind the bishop's palace in Ribe in southwest Jutland.

Erik Hansen "sterile" surveying and his incomprehensible stringent lines in ink, which in all their simplicity, contained the necessary information for an understanding of the present monuments structural state formed school not only in Denmark but in many other countries where he was sent on mission by UNESCO to Afghanistan and Cambodia.

Erik Hansen's international students in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture were from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Mexico and other Scandinavian countries.

The first major work of the Ecole Francaise d'Athènes was examining Siphniernes famous Treasury in Delphi in the years 1955-1965, a large-scale topographic atlas of the sanctuary, which was completed in 1968, and finally his outstanding research in Apollo's Temple and its reconstruction after a landslide in 373 [BC].