Woodland Crematorium, Stockholm, Sweden, Second version: exterior elevation and section
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885–1940
1935
A graphite-on-tracing-paper architectural drawing showing exterior elevation and section for Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Woodland Crematorium, aiming to translate a solemn, ritual program into clear, modern architectural form.
Delicate, measured pencil lines sweep across a long horizontal composition punctuated by low, rounded pavilions and a single vertical chimney, creating a calm, restrained monumentality.
The design exemplifies Asplund’s late modernist approach—melding classical proportion and human scale—which helped shape Scandinavian modernism’s ability to address ceremonial and memorial architecture.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper mounted on board
Dimensions
12 1/8 x 33" (30.8 x 83.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Jr., and purchase
Accession
56.1990
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