Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In Dialogue (2G Essays)
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Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson (Eds.)
Walther & Franz König Verlag, 2025
€34,95
Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg’s unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the “silent architect”.
Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
This publication takes a contemporary look at Bernt Nyberg’s biography project on Sigurd Lewerentz, which shows the great Swedish architect from a new perspective in film, still images and sound recordings.
The prevailing image of Sigurd Lewerentz is that of the “silent architect”: opaque, reclusive, and reluctant to reveal the motivations behind his work. Through still images, film and hours of recorded interviews, the architect Bernt Nyberg presents us with a different view — that of an architect on site, captured in a dialogue among the workers, the materials and the contingencies of a design as it unfolds in space and time. Through the curious and experimental lens of a younger contemporary — an architect obsessed with film, and operating at the cutting edge of its technology — Lewerentz’s discourse is shown to be one of praxis rather than theory, intensely interested in the consequences of construction. Nyberg was Lewerentz’s first biographer, and he was aiming to make a documentary film and book. However, these plans were cut short by Nyberg’s untimely death.
ISBN: 9783753308401
