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Lallerstedt, Erik (Julius)
(b Skå, Södermanland, 19 April 1864; d Stockholm, 2 Feb 1955). Swedish architect. After studying at the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1882–9, he began his professional career by winning the competition for rebuilding the Academy of Arts with a design in Italian Renaissance style (1892–7). He followed this with a series of banks, churches and blocks of flats in a fairly restrained Art Nouveau style with some Anglo-Saxon influences. As professor at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1905 to 1929, Lallerstedt was the mentor of the young architects who took the step from 20th-century classicism to Functionalism, several of whom trained in his office, for example Ivar Tengbom and Sven Markelius. Lallerstedt’s own work competently reflected the changing architectural styles, from Art Nouveau and National Romanticism to 20th-century classicism, but he was reluctant to accept International Modernism.
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