DOI Heft:
No. 369 (December 19239
DOI Artikel:Fant, Eric: Modern Swedish architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0337
MODERN SWEDISH ARCHITECTURE
(3) TECHNICAL COLLEGE, STOCKHOLM
ARCHITECT, ERIK LALLERSTEDT
on the new classical style, but with an
increasing emphasis of national peculiarities
even if a certain influence can be traced
to the modern art of the neighbouring
countries, Germany and Denmark. The
dominating material for fa£ades again
became plaster. Strong tendencies to create
effects of a monumental nature in towns
by means of a more uniform style of
building were increasingly in evidence,
and at the present moment this is, perhaps,
the most acute question in Swedish
architecture. Among the expressions of
this endeavour are the great competitions,
which are becoming more and more
common during recent years, for the
creation of the more important places and
sections of streets, also the planning of
whole towns. 00000
The modern brick architecture, which is
based on the softer configuration of the
hand-made brick as compared with the
hard and monotonous one of the machine-
made, was first initiated here in Sweden,
inter alia, by the leading trio of architects
during the first decade, E. Lallerstedt,
C. Westman and R. Ostberg. 0 0
One of the earliest examples of this kind,
perhaps also one of those longest in
existence, is the Club House (Fig. 8) of
C. Westman (born 1866), built for the
Association of Swedish Physicians (1906).
The facade relies solely on an admirable
division of the surfaces and of the well-
treated hand-made brick, sparingly sup-
ported by the granite of the plinth and
doorway. The only break is formed by an
oriel window, which accentuates the centre.
The style upon which this work is based
is to be sought for in mediaeval art, Danish
or Southern Swedish—the method of carry-
ing it out is, however, strongly personal.
One of the most pronounced national
styles, which arose during the sixteenth
century by the first influence of the
renaissance upon the citizens of the Middle
Ages, is called in Sweden the “ Vasa ”
style. This style has influenced Westman
in creating his chief work, Stockholm Town
Hall (Figs. 6 and 9), completed in 1915.
317
(3) TECHNICAL COLLEGE, STOCKHOLM
ARCHITECT, ERIK LALLERSTEDT
on the new classical style, but with an
increasing emphasis of national peculiarities
even if a certain influence can be traced
to the modern art of the neighbouring
countries, Germany and Denmark. The
dominating material for fa£ades again
became plaster. Strong tendencies to create
effects of a monumental nature in towns
by means of a more uniform style of
building were increasingly in evidence,
and at the present moment this is, perhaps,
the most acute question in Swedish
architecture. Among the expressions of
this endeavour are the great competitions,
which are becoming more and more
common during recent years, for the
creation of the more important places and
sections of streets, also the planning of
whole towns. 00000
The modern brick architecture, which is
based on the softer configuration of the
hand-made brick as compared with the
hard and monotonous one of the machine-
made, was first initiated here in Sweden,
inter alia, by the leading trio of architects
during the first decade, E. Lallerstedt,
C. Westman and R. Ostberg. 0 0
One of the earliest examples of this kind,
perhaps also one of those longest in
existence, is the Club House (Fig. 8) of
C. Westman (born 1866), built for the
Association of Swedish Physicians (1906).
The facade relies solely on an admirable
division of the surfaces and of the well-
treated hand-made brick, sparingly sup-
ported by the granite of the plinth and
doorway. The only break is formed by an
oriel window, which accentuates the centre.
The style upon which this work is based
is to be sought for in mediaeval art, Danish
or Southern Swedish—the method of carry-
ing it out is, however, strongly personal.
One of the most pronounced national
styles, which arose during the sixteenth
century by the first influence of the
renaissance upon the citizens of the Middle
Ages, is called in Sweden the “ Vasa ”
style. This style has influenced Westman
in creating his chief work, Stockholm Town
Hall (Figs. 6 and 9), completed in 1915.
317