Gunnar Leche

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Vaksalaskolan in Uppsala built by Gunnar Leche.

Gunnar Leche (born May 12, 1891 in Stockholm ; † March 7, 1954 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish architect and city ​​planner . He was the city architect in Uppsala from 1920 to 1954.

biography

Leche was the son of the Swedish zoologist Wilhelm Leche (1850-1927) and the brother of the Swedish writer Mia Leche Löfgren . As an architect and town planner, as well as a long-time urban architect, Leche was responsible for a large number of buildings during his time in Uppsala, especially in its districts from 1947 to 1950 in Tunabackar and from 1949 to 1952 in Sala backe . Furthermore, he also planned many buildings in Luthagen , Kungsängen , Fjärdingen , Höganäs or Kvarngärdet and Fålhagen and the underground needs institution and at the same time the current London Gallery in Uppsala. Under his direction as urban architect in Uppsala, a whole series of new residential buildings were built in the social housing sector.

His most famous buildings included the Vaksalaskolan (Vaksala School) built in 1925 and the Uppsala Stadsteater built in 1948 .

Picture gallery with a selection of his work

  • Verkerskolan, Uppsala

  • Uppsala City Theater

  • Gamla stadsbiblioteket, Uppsala

  • Liljeholmsbadet, Stockholm

literature

  • Lambert Lars: Gunnar Leche, stadsarkitekt ( Swedish ). Kornhuset, Uppsala 2004, ISBN 91-974366-2-3 , 9818839.
  • Carl Erik Bergold: En folkhemmets arkitekt: Gunnar Leche - stadsarkitekt i Uppsala 1920-1954 ( Swedish ), volume 1984. Årsbok, Stockholm : Arkitekturmuseet, 1979-1984, pp. 48-65: ill., ISSN  0280-2686 , 2364435.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Om Gunnar Leche hos Sveriges Arkitekter on arkitekt.se ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Title: Stadsarkitekten - både arkitekt och stadsbyggare, Retrieved June 9, 2013 (Swedish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arkitekt.se
  2. ↑ Lars Lambert , Red, Gunnar Leche, stadsarkitekt, Kornhuset förlag 2004.
  3. ↑ http://runeberg.org/nfbo/0776.html in Nordisk familjebok
  4. ↑ http://www.esplanaden.org/ , Retrieved June 9, 2013 (Swedish)
personal data
SURNAME Leche, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1954
Place of death Uppsala