Sigurd Lewerentz   Sweden   The long path revolving around the religious projects allows Sigurd Lewerentz to think and participate in every single part of the program. Also the prestige and respect earned by his own name as a devoted, meticulous and austere architect serves to

Eduardo Prieto   Children take two years to learn to read, and many take a lifetime to have a voice. Especially a writer, who uses such abstract mediums as words, sometimes to inform us, other times to move us, but always to draw us into a special ‘I-me’ from which g

Patrick Lynch    An exhaustive work of documentation, the catalog of the ArkDes exhibition on Sigurd Lewerentz undertakes a revision of his mythical oeuvre.

On view until 28 August at ArkDes, the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, is ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architecture of Death and Life,’ the first exhaustive show on a master who has garnered more recognition posthumously than he ever did while aliv

José Ignacio Linazasoro   Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the modern masters for whom recognition has been late in coming. He was eclipsed by his partner and friend Erik Gunnar Asplund, whom he outlived by thirty-five years, and even so, more years had to pass before h

Eduardo Prieto   That climate has a bearing on architecture is a commoplace. Nevertheless, to explain how this bearing has come about is an achievement, and for this the latest books published by Professor Dean Hawkes deserve recognition: two histories of architectur

William Curtis   History has not been fair to Sigurd Lewerentz. He has never fitted the oversimple categories which historians and critics have used to chart the development of modern architecture, and even recent revisionisms have had some difficulty situating his w

José Ignacio Linazasoro   Del Clasicismo al estilo tardío

Janne Ahlin   Zurich  2014  
Park Books   - 208 Pages