Lewerentz Fragments

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The publication Lewerentz Fragments introduces new scholarship on the architects motivations and compiles new essays from all the major scholars on his work, for the first time in one volume presenting both historical and critical perspectives.

Through new essays, recently discovered archival material, photography, and drawings, the publication Lewerentz Fragments explores the architects body of work spanning three-quarters of the twentieth century. Comprising writings from all the major scholars on Lewerentz work, along with several new voices, this publication offers new insight into the context surrounding this architects work. Rather than focusing on a single thesis, the book offers a diversity of insight from multiple cultural and professional perspectives. In addition, previously unpublished translations of interviews and dialogs among the architect and his contemporaries offer a voice to the silent architect altering the traditional interpretations of the work and digging past the surface of what might be considered his philosophy of building. Rather than serving as an introduction to the architects work, this volume provides detailed fragments as a deep and diverse dive into one of the most mysterious of Scandinavias modern masters.

Contributors: Johan Celsing, Patrick Doan, Nicola Flora, Jonathan Foote, Matthew Hall, Per Iwansson, Thomas Bo Jensen, Nathan Matteson, Enrico Miglietta, Paolo Giardiello, Hansjrg Gritz, Magnus Gustafsson, Mariana Manner, Anne-Marie Nelson, Gennaro Postiglione, Wilfried Wang, Ola Wedebrunn

With Contributions of: Archival reproductions from the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes), The Stockholm stadsarkiv, and The Malm stadsarkiv.
Historical construction photos of St Peters Church by Carl-Hugo and Lars Gustafsson
Photos of the newly constructed St Peters Church by Ole Meyer
Previously unpublished archival photographs of Lewerentz work
Translations of various archival documents and audio interviews with the architect
Current photography of the architects work from a variety of photographers


Funding support:
Auburn University College of Architecture, Design & Construction
Aarhus School of Architecture
DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media
The King Gustaf VI Adolfs fund for Swedish Culture
The Peter and Birgitta Celsing Foundation
The University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design

Reviews

"Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of architectural history's most revered, and most mythologized architects." --Azure Magazine

Author Bio

Jonathan Foote, Ph.D, is an architect (MAA) and Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. Previously, he taught at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Virginia Tech's Alexandria Campus (WAAC). His teaching, editorial work and research focuses on the relation between architectural drawings and materials. He has published on the drawings and workshop practices of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco Borromini, and Sigurd Lewerentz. In addition to his teaching and academic work, Jonathan runs a design research studio, Atelier U: W, which partners locally and internationally on special projects in design and fabrication. Hansjoerg Goeritz, AKN, FL, BDA aoM, DWB, Intl Assoc AIA, AFAAR, is a German-American practicing architect, designer, professor, and author associated with pure and minimalist architecture, emphasizing place, space, light, and material. Trained as a mason, through master school, self-studies, traveling, and at the AA London, he is founder and principal of Hansjoerg Goeritz Studio GbR, represented in Germany and the US. He taught, lectured, critiqued, published, and exhibited widely, including Tokyo, Mendrisio, Trondheim, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zurich, Yale, Weimar, New York, and Venice. Directing his Berlin studio, he is also a professor at the University of Tennessee and has served on a number of advisory boards and design juries. Major recognitions include the 1996 Baukunst award by the Academy of Arts Berlin, exhibiting at the 1996 Venice Biennale, the 2010 international Brick award, as a Prometheus Medalist, and as Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Matthew Hall. He is an Associate professor at the Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction, and director of the Scandinavian Study Abroad Program. Previously he taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design. In addition to collaborating with Hansjoerg Goeritz Studio GbR, He is a practicing architect and founding member of the anti-disciplinary design collective Obstructures with a research interest in material culture and the inherently problematic nature of design. His research and teaching are primarily concerned with the rift between intentions and consequences. He publishes and lectures internationally on topics of architectural history, theory and criticism with a focus on post-war Scandinavian architecture. Nathan Matteson. He has been working as a designer and educator in Chicago for over two decades. Currently he is on the faculty of the School of Design at DePaul University; is a researcher with the Center for Robust Decision-making in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Chicago; and is a founding member of the design collective Obstructures. He is a ruthlessly collaborative designer whose work merrily ignores the perceived boundaries among disciplines. In his practice he investigates the feedback loop between decision-making and design; explores strategies for numeric optimization in design contexts; and wrings its metaphorical hands over the relationships among computation, intention, materiality, and immateriality.