Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life Stockholm, Sweden

Exhibition

Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect of Death and Life

Stockholm, Sweden

Open until the 28th August 2022

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Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life is in its final weeks at Arkdes. The retrosepctive exhibition was designed by Caruso St John and curated by Kieran Long, Johan Örn and Lena Landerberg.

The exhibition presents four years of Arkdes' research, offering a new image of the architect, as an artist in tune with the time; curious about the modern city and its possibilities. Its spaces trace his career from his early commercial interiors, through to his Stockholm chapel and cemetery, his later great churches, to the Riksförsäkringsanstalten office building, the Malmö Opera and the Villa Edstrand.

Arkdes have produced online tours of each room which can watched here:

Room 1, The Last Studio
Room 2, Landscapes of Commemoration
Room 3, The Early Years
Room 4, Architect of the Modern Metropolis 
Room 5, The Idesta Years
Room 6, Late Masterpieces

Photo © Johan Dehlin

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