TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Nicholas
TI  - Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies. Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe 
T2  - Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies
SN  - 9780271065205
AV  - NA4475.S82 G673 2014eb
U1  - 725/.15094867 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
KW  - Public architecture
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Göteborg
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adams
KW  - Courthouse Extension law
KW  - Gothenburg
KW  - Gunnar Asplund
KW  - Segerstedt
KW  - Swedish
KW  - Torgny
KW  - architecture
KW  - courts
KW  - law
KW  - modern architecture
KW  - modern
KW  - public architecture
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; A Note on Translation --; Introduction: Public Architecture in the Modern World --; Chapter 1. Sweden: Gothenburg and Its Courthouse --; Chapter 2. Asplund’s Multiple Visions, 1913–1937 --; Chapter 3. Asplund’s Building and Modern Law --; Chapter 4. Asplund’s Reputation and the Catastrophic Reception --; Chapter 5. Managing Modernisms at Home --; Chapter 6. Public Architecture After Asplund --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper campaign led by one of the most noted editors of the day, Torgny Segerstedt. Famous for his determined opposition to National Socialism, he also took a principled stand against the undermining of urban tradition in Gothenburg. Gothenburg’s problems with modern public architecture, though clamorous and publicized throughout Sweden, were by no means unique. In Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg, Nicholas Adams places Asplund’s building in the wider context of public architecture between the wars, setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund’s conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s. Today, looking at the building in the broadest of contexts, we can appreciate the richness of this exquisite work of architecture. This book recaptures the complex magic of its creation and the fascinating controversy of its completed form
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271065205?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271065205
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271065205/original
ER  -