Gert Wingardh: Thirty Years of Architecture

Gert Wingardh: Thirty Years of Architecture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Birkhauser
Country
Switzerland
Published
18 January 2008
Pages
560
ISBN
9783764386467

Gert Wingardh: Thirty Years of Architecture

Gert Wingardh (*1951) is Sweden’s leading architect. His clever and imaginative spatial creations are remarkable in economic as well as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of the future users.

This monograph analyzes the principal aspects of his work in seminal essays by renowned architecture critics and uses text and images to document all the important buildings of his thirty-year career. Editor Mikael Nanfeldt is curator of the Roehss Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Goeteborg, the opening venue for a large exhibition of Wingardh’s work that then moves on to the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm before going on to tour internationally. Wingardh’s most remarkable projects include prizewinning laboratory buildings in Sweden and the United States, the Swedish embassies in Berlin and Washington, numerous villas, and the Muritzeum, a recently opened visitor center in Waren, Germany.

Gert Wingardh (*1951) ist Schwedens fuhrender Architekt. Seine klugen, erfindungsreichen raumlichen Gestaltungen sind ebenso in oekonomischer wie oekologischer und soziologischer Hinsicht bemerkenswert: immer stehen bei seinem Entwerfen die Bedurfnisse der kunftigen Nutzer im Mittelpunkt.

Diese Monografie analysiert in grundlegenden Essays renommierter Architekturkritiker die Hauptaspekte seines Wirkens und dokumentiert in Text und Bild alle wichtigen Bauten seiner 30jahrigen Tatigkeit. Herausgeber Mikael Nanfeldt ist Kurator des Roehss Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Goeteborg, Ausgangsort einer grossen Wingardh-Ausstellung, die nach dem Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm international gezeigt wird. Zu Wingardhs bemerkenswertesten Projekten gehoeren unter anderen preisgekroente Laborbauten in Schweden und den USA, die schwedischen Botschaften in Berlin und Washington, zahlreiche Villen sowie das jungst eroeffnete Besucherzentrum Waren in Deutschland.

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