Snøhetta

Snøhetta is a Norwegian architectural firm founded in 1987 by Kjetil Thorsen and Craig Dykers with offices in Oslo and New York.

They named the company after the Norwegian mountain Snøhetta. Snøhetta employs 120 designers working all over the world.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (°Karmøy, June 14, 1958) studied architecture in Graz, Austria. He had practiced at the offices of Espen Tharaldsen (Arbeidsgruppen Hus) in Bergen (1982–1983), Ralph Erskine in Stockholm (1983–1984) and David Sandved in Haugesund (1985). Since 2004, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck.

Craig Dykers (°Frankfurt, 1961) graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Snøhetta has received the World Architecture Award for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the Aga Kahn Prize for Architecture for Alexandria Library. Since its completion in 2008, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet has also garnered the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture and the EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association) Great Places Award, as well as the European Prize for Urban Public Space, The International Architecture Award and The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2010.