Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe

Gunnar Asplund's Courthouse Extension (1933-36) is one of the most important buildings in the history of the modern movement. Located in the port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, it presented a strikingly new conception of the role of law and the state. This study places Asplund's building into the wider [...]
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Gunnar Asplund's Courthouse Extension (1933-36) is one of the most important buildings in the history of the modern movement. Located in the port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, it presented a strikingly new conception of the role of law and the state. This study places Asplund's building into the wider context of public architecture between the wars in Europe setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund's conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s.