Paul Hedqvist

Paul Hedqvist ( born July 21, 1895 in Stockholm as Paul Gunnar Hedqvist, † 23 June 1977 ) was a Swedish architect who has worked mainly in the style of modernity.

Career

Paul Hedqvist practiced, after his studies at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm, at the renowned architect Ragnar Östberg. In 1924 started his own office, along with his partner David Dahl ( 1895-1973 ). Soon, Hedqvist for the ideas of functionalism in Germany with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus school at the top interested. One of his first works of this style were the Katarina Realskola in Stockholm (1928 ) and the indoor pool in Eskilstuna. Typical of Hedqvist was his fondness for square proportions of window and facade design. At the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, he was represented together with, inter alia, Had been Lewerentz Sigurd and Gunnar Asplund, the chief architect of the exhibition. 1938-48 he was a professor at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan (Royal College of Art ) in Stockholm.

Paul Hedqvist was a versatile architect. He designed apartments ( the row of terraced houses Ålstensgatan in Bromma, 1932), plants ( station building and the Flugleitturm for the Stockholm-Bromma Airport, 1936), schools ( Polhemsgymnasiet, 1938), office buildings ( high-rise for the tax authorities in Stockholm in 1955, high-rise for Dagens Nyheter, 1960) and bridges ( Västerbron 1935 Tranebergsbron 1935).

Pictures

Västerbron

Skattehuset

S: t Erik's high school

Literature and source

• Stockholm Byggnader, Bokförlaget prism Stockholm, 1977
• Svensk Arkitektur, Byggförlaget, 1986