Vilhelm Lauritzen (9 September 1894 – 22 December 1984) was a leading Danish modern architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.
He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, graduating in 1921.
He received the Academy's Gold Medal in 1926 and up through the 1920s he created a number of monumental designs in a classicist style which were never realized.
[2] Towards the end of the decade he travelled in Central Europe and became acquainted with the latest trends in Functionalist architecture with its technical and structural innovations.
Another major project included the national Danish Broadcasting Corporation DR Radio Building (Radiohuset) while its Television Building was designed by his firm with Mogens Boertmann (1918-2017) as its principal architect.