Background
Jensen was born in Herning where her father was an architect.
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Kristine Jensen
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After a short period working for C. F. Møller Architects, she returned to the architecture school to undertake research leading to a Doctor of Philosophy in 1996.
Career
When she was 19 she went to Aarhus to study landscape architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture, graduating in 1983. From 1996, she taught at the school until in 2002 she founded her own firm, Arkitekt Kristine Jensens Tegnestue. Works of particular note include her urban revival of the Prags Boulevard in the Amagerbro district of Copenhagen (2006).
Her studio also completed architectural landscaping in Kolding (2009) and Struer (2011).
More recently she has contributed to landscaping the area surrounding the Jelling stones on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Heritage site in Jelling, Jutland. The house was finished in June 2015, but the harbour-front is still under construction.
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Denmark
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Nykredit Architecture Prize; Eckersberg Medal Nykr Architecture Prize; Eckersberg Medal 2013: Eckersberg Medal 2014: Nykr Architecture Prize
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the Akademiets Aarsmedaille or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.The Eckersberg Medal (originally the Akademiets Aarsmedaille or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.