(b Copenhagen, 9 Nov 1887; d Copenhagen, 12 May 1976). Danish architect, designer and teacher. He studied at the Academy of Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen (1907–14), and then became an assistant to Hack Kampmann in Copenhagen. He made an early reputation in housing projects and also designed furniture and silverware, exhibiting at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris (1925). Gottlob belonged to the generation of architects who gave Danish classicism of the 1920s a distinctive elegance and strength. His chief works during this period were the church of St Lucas, Århus, won in competition in 1918 and completed in 1926 (with Anton Frederiksen); the Law Court (1922), Frederiksberg; and the Danish Students’ Hostel (1930) at the Cité Universitaire, Paris, also won in competition. His classicist works sometimes show a tendency to Mannerism and exaggerated proportions, especially evident in the church of St Lucas. From 1924 to 1938 he held a chair at the Academy of Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen. After 1930 Gottlob was influenced by the ideals of modernism, although he retained a classicist approach to architectonic articulation. In his modernist works he took full advantage of the expressive potential of new materials and construction techniques, seen in such buildings in Copenhagen as the reinforced-concrete office block Ørstedshus (1934), with Art-Deco designs in the lobby and stairway; the bridge at Knippelsbro (1937); and the School on the Sound (1937), with an open-air section reminiscent of the Ecole en Plein Air (1934), Suresnes, France, by Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods. From the late 1930s he was involved in the development of the new university park at Nørre Fælled, Copenhagen, designing the Pharmaceutical College (1939–41; altered 1964–7), the Odontological College (1939–41; altered 1967), the Anatomical Institute (1940–42) and the Egmont H. Petersen Hall of Residence (1950–59). He also carried out sensitive restoration projects on historic buildings and worked on the recording and preservation of the Danish architectural heritage.