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...
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Stockholm Public Library (redirect from Asplund's Library)
library building in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, and one of the city's most notable structures. The name is today used...
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because that was the year of the Stockholm Exhibition, designed mostly by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, when a more purist Modernism was unveiled as a...
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Carl-Erik Asplund (1923–2024), Swedish speed skater Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Swedish architect Jennie Asplund (born 1979) and Johanna Asplund (born 1981)...
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Andersson Per-Gunnar Andersson (born 1957), Swedish racing driver Per-Gunnar Andersson (born 1980), Swedish rally driver Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Swedish...
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inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994. Its design, by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, reflects the development of architecture from...
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Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1937–42) and was influenced early on by Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto. Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval architect...
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with leading modernists in Europe, including Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and many of the artists and architects associated with the Bauhaus,...
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was finished in 1936 after the design and supervision by architect Gunnar Asplund. Media related to Göteborgs rådhus at Wikimedia Commons 57°42′25″N 11°57′56″E...
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University of Technology from 1964 to 1987. Hans Asplund was the son of the architect Gunnar Asplund and Gerda Sellman (born 1892). His father had distinguished...
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Sturegården is arguably the first completed project (1913) by architect Gunnar Asplund. It is a residential house located in the city of Nyköping, some 100 km...
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times are the Stockholm Public Library by Gunnar Asplund and the World Heritage Site Skogskyrkogården by Asplund and celebrated architect Sigurd Lewerentz...
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(1931) is a Swedish modern architecture manifesto written by architects Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Eskil Sundahl, Uno Åhrén, and art historian...
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(English: Woodland Chapel), designed in 1920 by the architect Erik Gunnar Asplund in the Skogskyrkogården (English: Woodland Cemetery) in Stockholm, Sweden...
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designed in the Nordic Classicism style (owing much to Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, especially his Stockholm City Library) to the severely functionalist...
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Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund. Snellman House in Djursholm, Sweden, is built. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund. RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ernest...
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the Second World War, Utzon went to Stockholm to study the work of Gunnar Asplund. In the winter of 1943–44, there was an exhibition of modern American...
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uncomplicated planar geometry bears comparison to similar explorations by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Jože Plečnik. The façade is lined by fourteen columns with Corinthian...
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the square are the city hall, including the law court extension (by Gunnar Asplund), the bourse, and the main harbour canal of Gothenburg. 57°42′25.6″N...
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Stockholm Exhibition, under the guidance of director and Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. Enthusiastic architects collected their ideas and inspirations in the...
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Lister County Courthouse (Listers härads tingshus) designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in a Mannerist style in Sölvesborg, Sweden is started. Cunard Building...
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Mikael Karlsson and Martin Gren 1995 Håkan Lans 1997 Hans Hellsten 1999 Gunnar Asplund 2001 Mats Leijon 2003 Ove Öhman 2005 Lars Ingvarsson 2007 Karl Gustaf...
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architects who took up a very rigorous and stark form of Neo-classicism. Gunnar Asplund and Ivar Tengbom were two of the most well-known representatives during...
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Stockholm Public Library, built 1928. Architect Gunnar Asplund....
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Scandinavian Classicism and with some constructions by the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, who for some in the Stockholm Crematorium 1935–40 achieves a balance...
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Bridge in morning dress, top hats and spats (1931) Torsten Nothin, Gunnar Asplund, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, Prince Eugen and Yngve Larsson at the inauguration...
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Review, he wrote or collaborated on monographs of the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund, Hans Scharoun, Erich Mendelsohn, Hugo Häring and Günter Behnisch. Jones...
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Scandinavian design of the time, evident in the work of among others Gunnar Asplund, though by that time a new, modernist architecture and design was emerging...
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(1897-1977) Axel Johan Anderberg (1860-1937) Erik Asmussen (1913-1998) Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) Fredrik Blom (1781-1853) Ferdinand Boberg (1860-1946) Étienne...
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artist, architect, lithographer and designer (died 1940) September 22 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish "Nordic Classicist" architect (died 1940) December 5 – Ernest...
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