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Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect
Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect is a high-quality reprint of the first monograph ever written on Lewerentz and his work. Originally published in 1985 in Swedish, this legendary book tells the story of his life and presents his entire body of work through a combination of texts, photographs, drawings, and plans. This edition sets Lewerentz in a contemporary context through a concluding essay on his work and legacy by the German-Chinese architect, critic, and professor Wilfried Wang.
208 pages | 29 color plates, 215 halftones, 88 line drawings | 8 x 13 | © 2014
Architecture: Architecture--Biography
Table of Contents
Portrait
Wanderjahren
Berlin, Munich and the Deutscher Werkbund
The Firm of Lewerentz & Stubelius
A Profession in the Midst of Change
The Movement for Home Ownership
Housing for Mining Workers
Housing Commissions from Factories
Worker’s Housing in Helsingborg
Villa for the Engineer Ahxner
Between Life and Death
The Dispute over a Tomb
The Crematory Chapel in Helsingborg
Landscape as Architecture
The Competition for a Forest Cemetery
The Gradual Realization
The Classicizing
A Walk through the Proposal
Provincial Cemeteries
A Cemetery in the Open Landscape
A Catafalque by a Cairn
An Unearthed Church Tower
A Small Churchyard
Cemeteries in Stora Tuna and Kvarnsveden
The Workshop Society
The Young Architects Appear
The Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923
Exhibit for the Cremation Society of Sweden
Reality as Drawing
The Chapel of the Resurrection in the Woodland Cemetery
The Proposal for a Crematorium for the Eastern Cemetery in Malmo
The Stockholm Exhibition of 1930
Illuminated Advertisements of Stockholm, Inc., and BLOKK , Inc.
A Symbol for the Stockholm Exhibition
The Posters
The Housing Exhibition
The Boat
Projects of the Early Thirties
The Chapel in Enköping
Building for the Social Security Administration
Philips, Inc., of Sweden
The Mills at Marma and Skoghall
An Urban Plan for Lower Norrmalm, Stockholm
The Chapel of the Holy Cross
Projects of the Late Thirties
A Summer House in Falsterbo
The Theater in Malmo
Lewerentz’ First Proposal
Lewerentz’ Second Proposal
A Tenuous Design
Collaboration
The Chapels of St. Knut and St. Gertrude
His Own Manufacturer
Uppsala Cathedral and Environs
The City Hall
Uppsala Cathedral
The Church at the Bottom of the Lake
St. Mark’s Church in Björkhagen
Speculations Concerning the Parliament Building
With Light as a Building Block
The Petri
Church in Klippan
The Final Project
The Eastern Cemetery in Malmö
The Epiphany of the Bindweed
Curriculum Vitae
Index