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Asplund, Erik Gunnar (ā`rĭk g n`när äs`plənd), 1885–1940, Swedish architect. He designed the central library of Stockholm (completed 1928), but he is best known for the group of pavilions that he planned for the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. There Asplund employed the forms of the new architecture but added a dynamic line and a dignity of proportion of his own.How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The global list of architects or buildings under threat includes the 1962-63 Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, designed by Saarinen protege Ralph Rapson, the 1956-63 TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen, Gunnar Asplund grain elevators, Breuer houses, the Buffalo granaries Le Corbusier made famous in Vers une Architecture, the 1961 Cyclorama by Neutra and Alexander. In the mid- 1930s Erik Gunnar Asplund, Erik Bryggman and Alvar Aalto made remarkably parallel moves away from the Functionalist aesthetics of reduction towards a layered and multi-sensory architecture. As a result, Gunnar Asplund was appointed, and went on to attempt to bring the two tendencies together in a new Modernism. |
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