Gert Wingårdh

Gert Wingårdh (born April 26, 1951 in Skövde ) is a Swedish architect with his main office in Gothenburg and a second office in Stockholm .

Wingårdh studied art history and architecture in the 1970s at Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology .

In an interview he said that it was a visit to the Pantheon (Rome) that made him decide to become an architect. He received his diploma in architecture from the Technical University in 1975.

Over the next several years he had a number of assignments in the United States and Germany. Wingårdh is generally considered to be the most famous living Swedish architect. In the public debate in Sweden he was a strong advocate of skyscrapers.

Wingårdh started out as a postmodernist in the 1980s. He is known for quickly absorbing new trends in architecture and interpreting them with a personal expressive language.

chosen projects

Buildings

Completed

• 1986–88 Öijared Executive Country Club, Lerum
• 1993– Astra Zeneca research facility, Mölndal
• 1996–99 Swedish Embassy in the Nordic Embassies complex , Berlin
• 1999–2001 Universeum Science Center, Gothenburg
• 1997–2001 auditorium at Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg
• 1999–2001 Apartment house near Bo01, Malmö
• 1997-2001 Arlanda flight control tower, Sigtuna
• 2001-06 Aranäs School, Kungsbacka
• 2003-06 House of Sweden, Washington, DC
• 2003-08 K: fem Shopping, Stockholm
• 2004–08 Müritzeum Natural History Museum, Mecklenburg
• 2005–07 Citadellbadet swimming pool, Landskrona
• 2006-08 Malmö Arena, Malmö
• 2008-10 House 10, Kista
• 2006–11 Spira Konzerthaus and Theater, Jönköping
• 2007–12 Emporia shopping center, Malmö
• 2008–11 Tåkern Natural History Museum, Mjölby
• 2008–12 Victoria Tower, Stockholm (Kista)

• 2006–13 auditorium at Karolinska Institutet , Solna

Planned

• 2009–13 Laponia Natural History Museum , Gällivare
• 2005– Marl glass box , Kunsthalle

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  Main building of the Gina Tricot fashion house in Borås

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  Emporia Shopping Center, Malmo

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  Victoria Tower, Stockholm-Kista

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  Malmo Arena

literature

• Rasmus Waern: Gert Wingårdh, architect . Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2001.
• Stefan Ostrowski: Nordic by Nature , Natur & Kultur, 2001.
• Mikael Nanfeldt (Ed.): Gert Wingårdh; Thirty Years of Architecture . Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008.
• Gert Wingårdh, Rasmus Waern: Crucial Words. Conditions for Contemporary Architecture . Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008.
• Falk Jaeger: Wingårdhs . JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86859-035-7 .

Web links

Commons : Gert Wingårdh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage in English