Gunnar Asplund

Architect

1885 – 1940

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Who was Gunnar Asplund?

Erik Gunnar Asplund 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. 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."

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Born
Sep 22, 1885
Stockholm
Profession
Died
Oct 20, 1940
Stockholm
Resting place
Skogskyrkogården

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on July 23, 2013

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