Background
He was born in Kristiania as a son of journalist Diderik Hegermann Brochmann and Margit Hagen.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of journalist Diderik Hegermann Brochmann and Margit Hagen.
He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1934. After the Second World War he was involved in building projects at Ljan and Tveita in Oslo, and further the designing of social institutions nationwide. From 1949 to 1956 he was appointed professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, and later settled in Copenhagen.
He wrote several books on architecture.