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Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg

The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
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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.



“Nicholas Adams achieves his own feat of construction by placing Asplund’s extension into a broader historiography of mid-twentieth-century modernism and by contextualizing the building’s reception and effect upon the development of attitudes about modernist architecture. That a scholar could write an entire study on one building’s extension, and hold the reader’s interest so intently throughout the process, is its own singular achievement.”

—Mark Mussari, Scandinavian Studies

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