Research Catalog

Title

Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg : the transformation of public architecture in interwar Europe / Nicholas Adams.

Author

Adams, Nicholas, 1947-

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"Explores the work of Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, focusing on his courthouse extension (1933-36) in the port city of Gothenburg. Places Asplund's building into the wider context of public architecture in Europe from 1900 to 1950"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Buildings, landscapes, and societies

Uniform Title

Buildings, landscapes, and societies

Subject

• Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
• Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940
• Asplund, Erik Gunnar 1885-1940
• Göteborgs Rådhus (Göteborg, Sweden)
• 1900-1999
• 1900-talet
• Public architecture > Sweden > Göteborg > History > 20th century
• Public architecture > Europe > History > 20th century
• Modern movement (Architecture)
• Buildings
• Public architecture
• Öffentliches Gebäude
• Offentliga byggnader > historia
• Göteborg (Sweden) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Europe
• Sweden > Göteborg
• Rathaus Göteborg Göteborg > Rådhustillbyggnaden
• Göteborg
• Sverige > Göteborg

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.

Contents

Introduction : public architecture in the modern world -- Sweden : Gothenburg and its courthouse -- Asplund's multiple visions, 1913-1937 -- Asplund's building and modern law -- Asplund's reputation and the catastrophic reception -- Managing modernisms at home -- Public architecture after Asplund.

ISBN

• 9780271059846
• 0271059842

LCCN

2014005737

OCLC

• ocn881720154
• 881720154
• SCSB-14185806

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library