Jan Inge Hovig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian architect
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Place of Birth: Verran, Trøndelag, Norway
About Jan Inge Hovig
- Jan Inge Hovig (11 May 1920 – 4 July 1977) was a Norwegian architect.Hovig was born at Verran in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.
- He was the son of Johannes Sigurd Hovig (1895-1953) and Gudlaug Pauline Taugstad (1900-1969).
- Hovig finished his studies at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1946.
- He was city architect during the reconstruction of Narvik 1947-1950.
- Narvik had been devastated in battle during 1940 as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the German invasion of Norway.
- In 1950 he moved to Oslo and founded his own office.
- In 1956 Hovig entered into a partnership with Christian Norberg-Schulz.
- From 1972 Hovig entered into a partnership with Helge B.
- Kvernes in Porsgrunn.Hovig represented Norway at the Architecture Exhibition during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
- Hovig's most notable work is the Arctic Cathedral (Tromsøysund kirke), which was drafted in 1960 and completed in 1965.
- The church is part of the Tromsøysund parish in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.
- It is now probably the city's most famous building.Jan Inge Hovig married Norwegian television chef and author Ingrid Espelid Hovig in June 1977.
- Just one week after the wedding ceremony, he died of myocardial infarction.
- He was buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo.
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