Aage Rafn

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Aage Rafn (April 21, 1890 – May 7, 1953) was a Danish architect and designer. Born in Copenhagen, he studied at Metropolitanskolen, then at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, graduating in 1919 and winning the academy’s Great Gold Medal in 1921. As a student, he and Kay Fisker won a prize for designing railway stations on Bornholm and were later commissioned to redesign them, influenced by Martin Nyrop’s National Romantic style. Rafn’s work later moved toward Nordic Classicism and Functionalism. He ran his own studio from 1916 and helped with the Copenhagen Police Headquarters (1918–24) alongside Hack Kampmann, finishing the project after Kampmann’s death with Holger Jacobsen and Hans Jørgen Kampmann. In 1936, he and Kampmann received the Eckersberg Medal for Vartov Old Monastery on Lersø Park Allé. Rafn also designed furniture, lamps and ceramics. He led the Håndværkerskole of the Danish Museum of Arts and Crafts (1925–30) and the Kunsthåndværkerskole of the Danish Technical Society (1930–45). He married Lucie Hoel in 1927. Rafn died in Ordrup in 1953 and is buried at Mariebjerg Cemetery.