Kirsten Sand

In 1919, she became the first woman to graduate with full technical competence in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH).

[4] After matriculating from high school, she was admitted to the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1915 where she was the first woman to receive a full architecture diploma in 1919.

In 1928, she opened her own office which she ran until 1940, designing private homes, apartment buildings and summer houses for Oslo and the surroundings.

In the post-war period, Sand was one of the main contributors to the reconstruction of properties destroyed in the northern area of Troms where she was based from 1952 to 1966.

Typically for Sand, the layout is centred on a large kitchen which forms part of the open living-room area.

Brown corrugated fibre cement sheeting covers the two roofs and the wooden cladding is ochre with blue window surrounds and frames.