Lewerentz Fragments

Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson, Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson

• Publisher: Actar
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781638400028
• eBook ISBN: 9781638409779
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Essays & Monographs

The publication Lewerentz Fragments introduces new scholarship on the architect's motivations and compiles new essays from all the major scholars on his work, for the first time in one volume presenting both historical and critical perspectives. Through new essays, recently discovered archival material, photography, and drawings, the publication Lewerentz Fragments explores the architect's body of work spanning three-quarters of the twentieth century. Comprising writings from all the major scholars on Lewerentz' work, along with several new voices, this publication offers new insight into the context surrounding this architect's work. Rather than focusing on a single thesis, the book offers a diversity of insight from multiple cultural and professional perspectives. In addition, previously unpublished translations of interviews and dialogs among the architect and his contemporaries offer a voice to the 'silent architect' altering the traditional interpretations of the work and digging past the surface of what might be considered his philosophy of building. Rather than serving as an introduction to the architect's work, this volume provides detailed fragments as a deep and diverse dive into one of the most mysterious of Scandinavia's modern masters.Contributors: Johan Celsing, Patrick Doan, Nicola Flora, Jonathan Foote, Matthew Hall, Per Iwansson, Thomas Bo Jensen, Nathan Matteson, Enrico Miglietta, Paolo Giardiello, Hansjörg Göritz, Magnus Gustafsson, Mariana Manner, Anne-Marie Nelson, Gennaro Postiglione, Wilfried Wang, Ola WedebrunnWith Contributions of: Archival reproductions from the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes), The Stockholm stadsarkiv, and The Malmö stadsarkiv.
Historical construction photos of St Peter's Church by Carl-Hugo and Lars Gustafsson
Photos of the newly constructed St Peter's Church by Ole Meyer
Previously unpublished archival photographs of Lewerentz' work
Translations of various archival documents and audio interviews with the architect
Current photography of the architect's work from a variety of photographers
Funding support:
Auburn University College of Architecture, Design & Construction
Aarhus School of Architecture
DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media
The King Gustaf VI Adolfs fund for Swedish Culture
The Peter and Birgitta Celsing Foundation
The University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Lewerentz' Lessons: An Inspiring Initiation
• Substance and Effect
• Lewerentz and the Haven of Beauty
• Drawing as Building: Lewerentz and the Drawings for St Peter's
• St Peter's Forging Brick
• The Proximity of Distance
• To Build a Church
• Photographs of the Construction of St Peter's
• S:t Petri and I! Thoughts on Thirty-five Years as Priest and Participant
• Nyberg and Lewerentz
• Letters, Notes, and Dialogues
• The Exner Couple and 'the Lewerentz Family'
• Three Swedish Siblings: Lewerentz' Materialized Spirit
• Sigurd Lewerentz and a Material Basis for Form
• Reduction and Economy: Architecture as a Practice
• Sigurd Lewerentz: The Paradox of Construction
• The Practice of Heterodoxy
• Lewerentz Quantizes
• Notes on a Chapel and Two Canopies
• Reading Darkness: A Sensory Experience
• Index of Images