Gunnar Asplund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gunnar Asplund

Swedish architect

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1885

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 20-Oct-1940

Profession: architect

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930).
Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931.
His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space."