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Lewerentz, Sigurd
(b Sandö, Bjärtrå 29 July 1885; d Lund, Scania, 29 Dec 1975). Swedish architect. He studied at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola in Göteborg (1905–8) and then practised for two years in Berlin and Munich in the offices of Bruno Möhring, Theodor Fischer and Richard Riemerschmid. He also visited Italy. After a term at the Kungliga Akademi för de fria Konsterna he left to join the group opposed to academic training who gathered in a free studio in 1910–11, with Ivar Tengbom and Ragnar Östberg among the instructors. After this he ran his own practice, from 1911 in Stockholm, and from 1933 in Eskilstuna where he directed a steel-window manufacturing enterprise. His early production included urban planning and housing schemes with references to Heinrich Tessenow and to Östberg. Contacts with the crematory movement were crucial for his career. He made a model for a crematorium in Helsingborg, which was exhibited at the Baltic Exposition in Malmö in 1914. In this project he expressed symbolistic and ritual ideas, which replaced the hygienics-based crematory ideology. This resulted in his lasting involvement in crematorium and cemetery projects, and the first practical result was his association with Gunnar Asplund in a winning entry in the competition of 1914–15 for the Stockholm South (Woodland) Cemetery. In the development of this project (1915–35), the Woodland Cemetery emerged as the joint production of two architects with strong artistic integrity. The integration of landscape and architecture, and the ideas about the ritual arrangement of the chapels, however, bear the imprint of Lewerentz’s radical but subtle approach to the task. Both architects drew inspiration from Italy and Mediterranean culture as well as from the ideals of 18th-century Scandinavian Neo-classicism.
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