Stockholm Library
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 | Stockholm Library |
| Designer | Erik Gunnar Asplund |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Date | 1918 to 1927 |
| Building Type | library |
| Climate | cold temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Pre-Modern, Mannerist |
| Street Address | Sveav�gen 73 |
| Notes | Round central great hall on square plinth, poised on the early edge of Modernism. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Stockholm_Library.html |
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"Asplund's scheme of a round hall surrounded by staircases has a great deal in common with his Lister Courthouse, completed at the same time. The first sketches for the Public Library, prepared in 1921, depict a domed room. The substitution of a tall cylinder imparted monumental stature to the room and to the exterior of this moderately sized building, at the same time making it possible for light to be admitted through clear-glass windows in the outer walls instead of through the opaque glazing of the roof-lights.
"The maturation process of the Public Library marks an architectural turning point, the more traditional classicism of the early sketches giving way to increasing simplification. The ornamentation was gradually pared down to a few pictorial friezes in bas relief. In the simple, glazed shopfront base completed in 1928, functionalism has already made its entrance."
— Claes Caldenby and Olof Hultin. Asplund. p92.
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Claes Caldenby and Olof Hultin. Asplund. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-8478-0678-2. NA1293.A8C3513. p92. interior photo of entry, p96, plate 131. interior photo of main library space, p101, plate 141.
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. drawings and diagrams, p22-23.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Dan Cruickshank, ed. AJ Masters of Building, Erik Gunnar Asplund. Article by Dan Cruickshank and Kirstin Nielsson. Photographs by Martin Charles. London: The Architect's Journal, 1988. ISBN 1-870308-35-2. NA1293.A8A77. p41-42. exterior photo of east entrance, p44, plate 30.
Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. aerial photo, p89. — Available at Amazon.com
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing, f977, p545.
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