Hakon Ahlberg

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Hakon Ahlberg
black and white image of Hakon Ahlberg looking right of camera
Ahlberg in 1940
Born
Hakon Claes Axel Ahlberg

(1891-06-10)10 June 1891
Laholm, Sweden
Died12 March 1984(1984-03-12) (aged 92)
Stockholm, Sweden
Occupations
  • Architect
  • editor
  • author

Hakon Ahlberg (10 June 1891 – 12 March 1984) was a Swedish architect, author, and editor.[1]

Biography

Hakon Claes Axel Ahlberg was born at

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1914–1917, one of his most influential teachers being Ivar Tengbom.[citation needed
]

Ahlberg established his own office in 1917.[citation needed] He was best known as the official architect for the repair and restoration of Gripsholm Castle, near the town of Mariefred, in central Sweden. He was one of the founding members and first president of the Swedish Architects' Association and was known as an active participant in architectural debates. He was editor-in-chief of the Swedish architectural journals Arkitekten in 1922 and Byggmästaren, 1922–24. He was also president of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts 1954–62.[2]

Ahlberg's principal role in Swedish architecture was not as a "leader of style" but as an idealistic leader, as an organiser and spokesman of the Swedish architectural profession.[3]

As an architect, he was part of the brief movement called

Gothenburg exhibition in 1923 and the PUB department store in central Stockholm, from 1924. Ahlberg also designed several hospitals, including the Sidsjön mental hospital in Sundsvall 1939–44, the Children's clinic in Oslo, Norway (1946–50), and the University Hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela (1946–54).[4]

In 1957, Ahlberg was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal[5] and in 1973 the Alvar Aalto Medal. [6]

Ahlberg's architectural office closed in 1973.[citation needed] He died in Stockholm in 1984.[citation needed]

Gallery

Selection of buildings designed or co-designed by Hakon Ahlberg

References and sources

References
  1. ^ "Hakon Ahlberg". nationalmuseum. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Hakon Claes Axel Ahlberg". Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. George Allen & Unwin
    , London, 1943, p. 7.
  4. ^ "Ahlberg, Hakon". Göteborgs stadsmuseum. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Hakon Ahlberg (1891–1984)". Alvar-Aalto Medal. 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
Other sources
  • Nordic Classicism 1910–1930, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, 1982
  • Hakon Ahlberg, "Alvar Aalto", in The Finnish Architectural Review, 7,8/ 1976. Arkkitehti, 7–8/1976
  • Hakon Ahlberg, "The Dilemma of Classicism", in Sigurd Lewerentz 1885–1975, Architectural Association Publications, London, 1989
  • E. Paulsson et al., Hakon Ahlberg, Arkitekt och Humanist. Byggforskningsrådet, Stockholm, 1994

External links

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