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"Freestanding" Exhibition Shows the Power and Poetry of Sigurd Lewerentz’s Architecture

AD Editorial Team — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present Freestanding, an exhibition in the Biennale's Central Pavilion. Below, the team describes their contribution in their own words.

Fighting the Neoliberal: What Today's Architects Can Learn From the Brutalists

Simon Henley — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:30:00 +0000

In this second installment of his revamped “Beyond London” column for ArchDaily, Simon Henley of London-based practice Henley Halebrown discusses a potential influence that might help UK architects combat the economic hegemony currently afflicting the country – turning for moral guidance to the Brutalists of the 1960s.

a+u April 2016 Special Issue Sigurd Lewerentz – Drawing Collection 1+2

Rene Submissions — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:30:00 +0000

This special edition of a+u is a comprehensive issue dedicated to Sigurd Lewerentz's drawing collection, originally published as two issues in January and February 2016. Comprised of Lewerentz's hand drawings from the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) archive and photographs, the issue covers four of the architect's prominent works throughout his career: Malmö Eastern Cemetery, Social Security Institute, Villa Edstrand, and St. Petri Church in Klippan.

'In Therapy' – the Nordic Contribution to the 2016 Venice Biennale

AAA — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 04:00:00 +0000

The Nordic nations—Finland, Norway and Sweden—have reached a pivotal point in their collective, and individual, architectural identities. The Grandfathers of the universal Nordic style—including the likes of Sverre Fehn, Peter Celsing, Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, Alvar Aalto, and Eero Saarinen—provided a foundation upon which architects and designers since have both thrived on and been confined by. The Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale—directed by Alejandro Aravena—will be the moment to probe: to discuss, argue, debate and challenge what Nordic architecture really is and, perhaps more importantly, what it could be in years to come.

A+U 544: Sigurd Lewerentz Drawing Collection I

Katie Watkins — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:00:00 +0000

From the publisher: January 2016 issue of a+u is a special issue focused on the drawing collection of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975).

Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect (1885–1975)

James Taylor-Foster — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 03:30:00 +0000

Sigurd Lewerentz is one of Europe's greatest, relatively unsung 20th century architects. He was educated as a mechanical engineer at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, but it was an architectural apprenticeship in Munich that set him on his career path — a path that "led him to be revered as one of Sweden’s most eminent architects." This sought after reprint of Janne Ahlin's seminal monograph has now been made available once again.