{{Short description|Norwegian architect (1910–2000)}} '''Otto Torgersen''' (16 June 1910 – 12 December 2000) was a Norwegian architect and advertising executive. thumb|Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (1971)
Torgersen was born in Trondheim, Norway. He studied advertising and architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London (1937–38). In 1947, he founded an advertisement and architectural firm, Pran og Torgersen AS, which he operated jointly in partnership with Christian Pran, who died in 1961.
Among his architectural designs were the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology at Etterstad from 1960 and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (''Norges idrettshøgskole'') at Sognsvann on Kringsjå in Oslo from 1971.<ref name=g72>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Torgersen, Otto |first=Helge |last=Heiberg |encyclopedia=Gyldendals Store Konversasjonsleksikon |publisher=Gyldendal|location=Oslo |language=Norwegian | year=1972 |edition=3 |volume=5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Norges_idrettsh%C3%B8gskole |title= Norges idrettshøgskole|publisher= Store norske leksikon |author= Rolf Bryhn|accessdate= September 1, 2017}}</ref>
Torgersen was responsible for designing the exhibitions at Norway's Resistance Museum at Akershus Fortress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mil.no/felles/nhm/start/eng/|title=Norway's Resistance Museum|accessdate=25 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803034610/http://www.mil.no/felles/nhm/start/eng/|archive-date=3 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also contributed to the Kon-Tiki Museum and the Fram Museum, both at Bygdøy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Otto Torgersen (obituary)|last=Gjelsvik|first=Tore|date=22 December 2000|work=Aftenposten|language=Norwegian}}</ref> <ref name=snl-pt>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Pran & Torgersen |first=Roger |last=Phil |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Pran_%26amp%3B_Torgersen |language=Norwegian | accessdate=25 February 2011 }}</ref> He was awarded the advertisers prize ''Gullblyanten'' in 1969 for his association with Norway's participation at the Expo 67 at Montreal in 1967, as well as exhibitions at Barcelona in 1957 and at Ekeberg in 1959.<ref name=snl-gullblyanten>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Gullblyanten |first=Birger M |last=Vikøren |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Gullblyanten |language=Norwegian | accessdate=25 February 2011 }}</ref> He died in December 2000 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.disnorge.no/gravminner/vis.php?mode=x|title=Cemeteries in Norway|publisher=DIS-Norge|language=Norwegian|accessdate=26 February 2011}}</ref><ref name=snl-pt/>
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