Gert Wingårdh
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| Gert Wingårdh | |
| Born | April 26, 1951; Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden |
| Education | Gothenburg University, Chalmers University of Technology |
| Firms | Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB, Gothenburg, Sweden; Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB, Stockholm, Sweden |
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[edit] Projects
- Öijared Executive Country Club, Lerum, Sweden
- Astra Zeneca R&D Site, Mölndal, Sweden
- Swedish Embassy, Berlin, Germany
- Universeum Science Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Housing at Bo01, Malmö, Sweden
- Arlanda flight control tower Arlanda, Sigtuna, Sweden
- Astra Zeneca Waltham Site, Massachusetts, USA
- House of Sweden, Washington, District of Columbia
- Müritzeum visitors centre, Mecklenburg, Germany
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Gert Wingårdh was born in Skövde in Västergötland, Sweden, as a son of a cement factory owner. The family moved to Gothenburg when Wingårdh still was a child. As a young architect Wingårdh was influenced by the postmodern theories of Robert Venturi. He was seen as a somewhat eccentric person at the time, since sociological theories – not experiments with building forms – was the main focus of the architecture at the time.
Starting as an interior decorator he had his big breakthrough as an architect with the Öijared Executive Contryclub in Lerum, outside Gothenburg, 1988. He was rewarded the Kasper Salin Prize, Sweden's most prestigous prize, for the building. In the 90's his office expanded as he won more contests and prizes. His office is in 2007 one of the Sweden's biggest architectural firms, and Gert Wingårdh is the architect who without competition has won the Kasper Salin Prize most times. He also is the only Swedish architect with a ”starchitect” reputation – other Swedish architect firms are based on groups of people, while Gert Wingårdh is a brand as well as a person.
The style of Wingårdh is much based on genus loci – adapted to ”the task in hand”. He has described himself as a ”high organic” architect, combining high tech and organic styles. In some later projects there has been a trend towards minimalism and neo-functionalism – he has also worked together with Peter Zumthor.
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[edit] References
- About Wingårdh at Wikipedia
- Homepage of Wingårdhs office
- Gert Wingårdh, architect, by Rasmus Waern (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2001)
- Nordic by Nature, by Stefan Ostrowski (Natur & Kultur, 2001)
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