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Place of Birth: Turku, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Erik Bryggman
- Erik William Bryggman (7 February 1891 – 21 December 1955) was a Finnish architect.
- He was born in Turku, the youngest of the five sons of Johan Ulrik Bryggman (1838–1911) and Wendla Gustava Bryggman (née Nordström) (1852–1903).
- He began studies in architecture at Helsinki University of Technology in 1910 and qualifying as an architect in 1916.
- In 1914 he and fellow student Hilding Ekelund made a study trip to Denmark and Sweden.
- In 1920 he travelled to Italy, where he became inspired more by the local vernacular architecture than the classical or Baroque works.
- He worked in Helsinki for various architects, including Sigurd Frosterus, Armas Lindgren, Otto-Iivari Meurman and Valter Jung before starting his own office in Turku in 1923.
- Bryggman's architecture is noted for its combination of Nordic, classical and modernist characteristics. Bryggman married Agda Grönberg (1890–1960), a nurse from Turku, in 1917.
- Their first child died.
- Their second child, Carin Bryggman (1920-1993), followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a well-known designer and completing a number of his works after his death in 1955.
- They also had a third child, Johan Ulric Bryggman (1925-1994).
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