Rethinking the landscape: Erik Gunnar Asplund’s and Sigurd Lewerentz’s Woodland Cemetery

Authors

  • Marco Maggioni Politecnico di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201429337

Keywords:

Erick Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, Woodland Cemetery, architecture and conception of the landscape

Abstract

The article retraces one of the leading Scandinavian landscape experiences of the Twentieth Century. Skogskyrkogården – the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm - designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz between 1915 and 1940, represents the first example of space for burials addressed by guidelines that exceed the scenic vision of the landscape. The process of the definition of the Woodland Cemetery is then investigated through the evolution of the relationship that architecture and landscape establish in the different phases of the project advanced by the two Swedish architects, in a compositional path that leads the idea of landscape to a new definition.

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Author Biography

Marco Maggioni, Politecnico di Milano

Marco Maggioni ((Vigevano, 1982). Laureato in Architettura al Politecnico di Milano (2007). Dottore di ricerca in Architettura, Urbanistica, Conservazione dei luoghi dell’abitare e del paesaggio nella medesima università con la tesi Forme della continuità tra architettura e paesaggio: il Crematorio nel Bosco di Erik Gunnar Asplund (2014) e PhD guest student durante lo sviluppo della ricerca alla School of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm con una borsa per progetti di mobilità internazionale fornita dal Politecnico di Milano. Ha lavorato in Italia occupandosi di progetti di sviluppo urbano su larga scala, di concorsi internazionali e di conservazione dell’edilizia storica e del paesaggio. Vive a lavora a Stoccolma, dove ha collaborato con Urban Future Organization Scandinavia e dove prosegue la propria attività di ricerca su Erik Gunnar Asplund e sull’architettura nordica.

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Published

2014-06-30

How to Cite

Maggioni, M. (2014). Rethinking the landscape: Erik Gunnar Asplund’s and Sigurd Lewerentz’s Woodland Cemetery. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (2), 104–117. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201429337

Issue

No. 2 (2014): Rethinking, Remaking

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