{"id":4729,"date":"2024-04-03T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/?post_type=exhibition&p=4729"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:13:15","slug":"sigurd-lewerentz-architect-of-death-and-life","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/en\/exhibitions\/sigurd-lewerentz-architect-of-death-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sigurd Lewerentz (1885\u20131975) is one of architectural history\u2019s most revered and most mythologised architects. Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life<\/em> is the first ever comprehensive exhibition of the life and work of the Swedish architect, drawing on ArkDes\u2019 unique and complete collection of his drawings, personal archive and library. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the works of an architect who is perhaps even more influential today than he was in his own time.<\/p>\n

It is Lewerentz\u2019s late churches that have gripped the imagination of architects across the world, in particular the powerful, brick structures of St Mark\u2019s in Bj\u00f6rkhagen, Stockholm and St Peter\u2019s in Klippan. These two profound works, completed in the 1950s and 60s, were famous in their time and remain spellbinding today. But the Lewerentz of these churches was an old man, and it was this lone, taciturn genius, with black overcoat and cigar in hand, that became the figure familiar to architectural history.<\/p>\n

Four years of new research by ArkDes curator Johan \u00d6rn reveals a completely new picture of Lewerentz, moving away from the clich\u00e9 of the uncompromising, lone maestro, and painting a picture of an artist constantly in tune with and adapting to his time, always collaborating and with a restless curiosity about the modern metropolis and its possibilities.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, designed by Caruso St John \u2197<\/a>, displays the architect\u2019s creative world: his early, lesser known designs for shops and commercial interiors; the landscape and chapel at the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm (now a UNESCO world heritage site); graphic design and architecture for the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930; industrial design for his manufacturing company IDESTA; and the built masterpieces of Malm\u00f6 Eastern Cemetery, the Riksf\u00f6rs\u00e4kringsanstalten office building in Stockholm, Malm\u00f6 Opera, Villa Edstrand in Falsterbo, and the two great churches. His production was wide and includes workers\u2019 housing, villas, furniture, wallpapers, tombstones, city plans, factories, religious buildings, advertising, modern office buildings, hotels and shops.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n