The Danish-American architect Knud Lönberg-Holm is acknowledged for his pioneering work in architecture, photography, journalism and as an influential networker in the modern movement in Europe and USA. But he has not been fully recognised for his work with system theories or credited for the development of a several important current concepts.

Rediscovering Knud Lönberg-Holm’s Koege Shipyard
The shipyards six building halls were designed by Knud Lönberg-Holm 1918-20 in collaboration and engineer C. Nyholm. The 200 worker’s dwellings were designed with architect Kai Turin and the shipyard’s logo by Knud V. Engelhardt. Published in Germany 1923 by Werkbund and Wasmuts Monatshefte as “Ingenieurbauten in ihrer guten Gestaltung.”

Recreating Knud Lönberg-Holm’s Chicago Tribune Tower project
Knud Lönberg-Holm’s Chicago Tribune Tower Competition project 1922, was exhibited at the Bauhaus Woche in 1923 and featured in the first edition of Bauhausbücher, 1925. Knud Lönberg-Holm designed an expanded De Stijl typeface for the Chicago Tribune project. Models of the project in 1:100 and a 1:200 have been built for comparative critical analysis. 

Reclaiming Lönberg-Holm’s America photos 1923-30
Knud Lönberg-Holm’s photograph “Broadway, the White Way” 1923 and El Lissitzky’s adaption of the photo in the photomontage “Record” 1925.

Residence for Mrs. MacBride 1924
An example of Knud Lönberg-Holm’s interpretation of Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren’s 11 Points of Architecture.

Shelter magazine 1932
Front- and back cover for Shelter, “A correlating medium for the forces architecture”, edited by Knud Lönberg-Holm and Buckminster Fuller.

Bibliography 1923-70
Lönberg-Holm published more than hundred articles and scientific papers between 1923 and 1970. His manifest “Architecture or Organized Space?” written in Detroit September 1929 analyzed the architect’s role in the industrial society and has been frequently reprinted. His article “The Gasoline Filling and Service Stations” from Architectural Record June 1930, has been credited for the introduction of modern box-type stations in the US.

System analysis 1929-51
“Community relationships” from Development Index by Knud Lönberg-Holm and Theodor Larson, 1951.