Erik Gunnar Asplund , Stadsbiblioteket
”Like many of those colleagues who shared his goals, he strove to create harmony in his work, to tie together the threads of a living future with those of a living past. In the creation of forms, pastiche and copying were as alien to him as rootless technocratic constructivism.“ – Alvar Aalto, in E. G. Asplund in Memoriam (Arkkitehti, 1940).
Asplund Stockholm Library
Stadsbiblioteket
Year of Design: 1918-1920
Year of Construction: 1920-1927 (Library) / 1928-1931 (Park, Retail and Café)
Lifetime of Erik Gunnar Asplund: * 22. September 1885 in Stockholm; † 20. October 1940 in Stockholm
Most imortant buildings: Public City Library in Stockholm, Woodland Cemetary in Stockholm and the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 for Art, Architecture and handicraft.
To learn more about Asplund’s library, I can only recoment Hong Qin’s Website which is more a xml-Book than a website.
