COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Woodland Crematorium
Alternate Title:
Skogskyrkogården
Image View:
Detail, signage to walkway leading to crematorium chapels
Creator:
Erik Gunnar Asplund (Swedish architect, 1885-1940); Sigurd Lewerentz (Swedish landscape architect, 1885-1975)
Location:
site: Stockholm, Stockholm (county), Sweden
Location Note:
Enskededalen district
GPS:
+59.275556+18.099444
Date:
cemetery 1915-1918 (creation); crematorium 1935-1940 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Swedish
Style Period:
Constructivist; Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
cemetery
Work Type 2:
crematorium
Work Type 3:
chapel (room or structure)
Classification:
architecture
Material:
marble cladding; concrete
Technique:
construction (assembling); gardening
Subjects:
architecture; death or burial; funerary art; Cemeteries; cremation; sacred ways; mortuary temples; typography; epigraphy
Description:
Cemetery architecture played a major part in Asplund?s work. His major work after the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 was the crematorium of the Woodland Cemetery (1935-1940). [He had designed the surrounding cemetery starting in 1917 after winning the design competion of 1915 with Sigurd Lewerentz. The layout of the cemetery is inspired by Greek and Roman Sacred Ways.] The crematorium consists of a terrace of semi-underground technical facilities and, on the ground-level, the large chapel of the Holy Cross and two smaller chapels, of Faith and of Hope. A grand detached portico guards the entrance to the chapel of the Holy Cross. The façades of the chapels are reminiscent of the exhibition buildings? slabs but have marble cladding. 'The monumental quality', Asplund writes, 'was deliberately reserved for the 'Biblical' landscape'. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier:
1A1-AEG-WCR-A2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Woodland Crematorium
