Woodland Crematorium, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden, Site plan and section, final version
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885–1940
Sigurd Lewerentz
Swedish
1937
A graphite drawing on tracing paper by Erik Gunnar Asplund that lays out the site plan and section for the Woodland Crematorium, showing how the building is sited and how movement and ritual through the cemetery are organized.
The sheet reads like a calm, horizontal panorama—softly shaded lawns and a precise web of paths are rendered in muted graphite, while the crematorium appears as a darker, blocky anchor punctuating the delicate landscape network.
This drawing captures Asplund’s modernist strategy of integrating architecture and landscape, a formative example of how twentieth‑century designers conceived public, ceremonial spaces that balance monumentality, procession, and nature.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
16 1/4 x 37 7/8" (41.3 x 96.2 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Jr., and purchase
Accession
62.1990
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