Svein Hatløy is a Norwegian architect, professor and founder of the Bergen School of Architecture

Bergen School of Architecture

Bergen School of Architecture or BAS is a private and academically independent school which trains architects, located in Bergen, Norway....

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Hatløy was the principal of this school from its foundation in 1986 until August 2007. After his retirement as the school's principal, he still works as professor for the institution. He was educated as an architect at the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...

 in 1964 and later studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

He was given the Norwegian National Association of Architects' Honorable Membership in 2001 because of his long work with BAS.