Key Building:
Chapel of the Resurrection, Woodland Cemetery, Enskede, Stockholm, Sweden
1914-34
Architecture competition : 1914
collaboration with fellow Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz
Asplund Buildings:
Lister County Courthouse, Solvesborg, Sweden
1917-21
Stockholm Library, Sveavägen 73, Stockholm
1918-27
Villa in Djursholmen, Djursholm, Stockholm
1917-18
Woodland Chapel, Stockholm
1918-20
ref. Chapel of Resurrection further up page
Woodland Crematorium, Stockholm
1935-40
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Key Project:
Stockholm Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden
1930
Asplund Library - competition
Swedish Architect
Gunnar Asplund - Architect
1885-1940
Gunnar Asplund was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. Asplund and Lewerentz are generally recognised as two of the greatest Swedish architects of the 20th Century in Sweden, and came to worldwide attention. Most histories of World Architecture reference them and their collaboration - the Woodland Cemetery.
His work is not the Modernism of Mies or Corbusier but a softer style much influenced by Classical architecture. Just as with the National Romantic Style popular in neighboruing Finland so Gunnar fused the International Style with more traditional and more Swedish forms. Asplund worked initially for Tengrom, Westman & Ostberg Architects in Sweden.
Swedish Architecture
Related 20th Century Swedish Architect:
Sigurd Lewerentz
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