Erik gunnar asplundh biography channel

Swedish architect

Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a-okay Swedisharchitect, mostly known as a key representative of Germanic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade bequest his life. At this time, he was a larger proponent of the modernist style which made its useful in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute confiscate Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by wonderful lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic hypothesis of space."^[1]The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of probity masterpieces of modern architecture.^[2]

Major works

Among Asplund's most important entireness is the Stockholm Public Library, constructed between 1924 unthinkable 1928, which stands as the prototypical example of loftiness Nordic Classicism and so-called Swedish Grace movement. It was particularly influential on the proposal submitted for the match for the design of the Viipuri Library in 1927 by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, who regarded Asplund bring in his mentor.^[3]

Another important work is the extension of honourableness Gothenburg City Hall Extension building which Asplund started deduction 1913 and finished 1937 - it shows his metamorphosis from neo-classical to functionalist architect, a transformation in mirror with other European modernists like Erich Mendelsohn.

Asplund collaborated with architect Sigurd Lewerentz in the design of Skogskyrkogården, a cemetery which is a UNESCO world heritage point, created between 1914 and 1940. They were also ethics main architects for the temporary Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Although temporary, the modernist, exposed-glass-and-steel-frame Entry Pavilion at honourableness fair was internationally influential. In fact, it was essential already before its completion, having an influence on significance much smaller Turku Fair in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto and Erik Bryggman, who had travelled to Stockholm to see its construction.^[4]

Gunnar Asplund is considered perhaps character most important modernist Swedish architect and has had clean up major influence on later generations of Swedish and Germanic architects.^[5]

Our architectonic concept of space

The lecture "Our architectonic paradigm of space" was delivered in 1931 on the instance of Asplund being appointed professor of architecture at depiction Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Asplund published loss of consciousness theoretical texts. The lecture was later regarded as propose important contribution to the attitudes of Asplund, as with flying colours as others of his generation, towards the architectural troubles of the time. The lecture has its background remodel the then well known 2-volume book by German common-sense Oswald Spengler "The decline of the West" (1918 increase in intensity 1922).^[6]

Bibliography

Gallery

• Proposal for emergency housing, Stativet and Tumstocken, Stockholm, 1917

• 1922 sketch by Gunnar Asplund of the interior of class Skandia cinema, Stockholm

• Stockholm Public Library

• Gothenburg's City Hall Extension, interior

• Skogskyrkogården cemetery

• Listers County Court House, Sölvesborg

• Stockholm Exhibition, 1930

Exhibitions

• The Architectonics of Gunnar Asplund, MoMA, New York (1978)
• En chantier: Loftiness Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999, Canadian Centre for Design, Montreal (1999-2000)
• Architecture and Design Drawings: Inaugural Installation, MoMA, Another York (2004-2005)
• 75 Years of Architecture at MoMA, MoMA, Newborn York (2007-2008)
• In Situ: Architecture and Landscape, MoMA, New Royalty (2009-2010)
• Asplund Pavilion,Biennale of Architecture, Venice (2018-)

Notes

Further reading

• Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2005). Design of the 20th Century (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. p. 72. ISBN . OCLC 809539744.

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