Gunnar Asplund Architect

Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space."

Personal facts

Gunnar Asplund
Birth dateSeptember 22, 1885
Birth place
Stockholm
Nationality
Sweden
Date of deathOctober 20, 1940

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Architect

Significant building
Stockholm
Villa Sturegården
Nyköping
Sölvesborg
Stockholm Public Library
Significant project
Gothenburg
Skogskyrkogården

Gunnar Asplund on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://asplund-library.org
  2. http://palladio.arch.kth.se/~a96_fso/asplund
  3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s-h-s/sets/72157603485847637