Arne Bjørnson Eide was a norwegian architect from Bergen (1881-1957). Eide was seen as a skilled drawer, he illustrated the book about Åsgårdstrand with waterpaintings. From 1899-1900 Eide was a hospis at Technische Hochschile in Berlin, where he graduated in 1903. From 1903-1909 Eide worked in Berlin, before moving to Kristiania in 1909.

In Byggekunst Eide has commented the importance of the interior and exterior material and a building's surroundings. In the journal in 1916 Eide commented the importance of finding a buildings "grunntone". A city was supposed to have its own physonomy, a emphasize of its own. It was the mission of the architect to find this and tie the project to the city's tradtion. Eide was putting emphasize on the modern movement towards a "healthy simplicity in plan, shape and construction" (Byggekunst, 1920/21:85).

Source: Tove Kristiansen, Folketeaterbygningen, unpublished, p.34-35