Gudmund Hoel

Who is Gudmund Hoel?

Gudmund Hoel was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after Paul Due.

Born in Kragerø, Hoel graduated from Kristiania Tekniske Skole in 1896. For six years he had various assistant jobs at architecture firms in Norway and Germany. In 1904, he started working for Holger Sinding-Larsen, and in 1910 he established his own firm. In 1913, he was appointed director of the newly established NSB Arkitektkontor, an in-house division of the Norwegian State Railways. He remained director there until he retired in 1947. His early works were mostly in historicism, but from the 1920s he started designing in neoclassicism.