Jacob Christie Kielland

Jacob Christie Kielland (20 January 1897 – 19 October 1972) was a Norwegian architect.

He was born in Bergen to architect Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland (1866–1926) and his wife Anna Magdalena Katherine (1871–1948), née Christie.

[1] Jacob Christie Kielland took his architectural education at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1919.

[2] After graduation, Jacob Christie Kielland ran his own architect firm in Oslo.

He later became director of Oslo Bolig- og Sparelag (OBOS), the largest housing cooperative in Norway.

Jacob Christie Kielland in the 1930s
The borettslag Etterstad 1 , drawn by Jacob Christie Kielland for OBOS .