Designer · Sweden · 1885–1940
Gunnar Asplund
Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940) – Swedish architect, one of the creators of Scandinavian modernism, author of Stockholm Public Library and Woodland Cemetery.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1885–1940
- Country
- Sweden
Erik Gunnar Asplund was born in Stockholm on 22 September 1885 and died there on 20 October 1940. He obtained his architectural diploma in 1909 from Tekniska skolan (the Technical School), and then studied at the private Klara skola, run, among others, by Ragnar Östberg. From 1917–1920 he published the journal “Arkitektur”, and from 1931–1940 was professor of architecture at KTH.
His early buildings represented neoclassicism; from the 1920s onwards he moved towards the geometric, functional form of modernism. He designed, among others, Skandia cinema (1922–1923), Stockholm Public Library (1924–1927), the pavilions for the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, the extension of Gothenburg City Hall (1934–1937) and – with Sigurd Lewerentz – Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården) with its crematorium (1940), where he was buried.
