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Erik Gunnar Asplund at a Glance

Woodland Crematorium, Erik Gunnar Asplund

name | Erik Gunnar Asplund

lived | 1885-1940

style | Neoclassicism, Modernism

biography | the architect at a glance

Born in 1885, Asplund's early projects such as the 1927 Stockholm Municipal Library, became icons of Scandinavian neoclassicism. His later works however, were marked by a restrained monumentality that echoed a new modernism. His Stockholm Crematorium constructed in 1940, is perhaps the finest example of monumental religious architecture of the 20th century.

buildings | selected works

Stockholm Municipal Library | 1927
Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Exposition | 1930
Stockholm, Sweden

Woodland Crematorium | 1935-1940
Stockholm, Sweden

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