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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Olaus Rudbeck, Gert Wingardh, Willem Boy, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Ralph Erskine, Carl Johan Cronstedt, Peter Celsing, Josef Frank, Fredrik Lilljekvist, Kornel Pajor, Gunnar Asplund, Alfred Grenander, Ivar Tengbom, Axel Haig, Carl O. Nordling, Sven Markelius, Paul Hedqvist, Carl Westman, Fredrik August Lidstromer, List of Swedish architects, Isak Gustaf Clason, Hakon Ahlberg, Louis Jean Desprez, Carl Harleman, Axel Anderberg, Augustin Ehrensvard, Erik Palmstedt, Mia Hagg, Sigurd Lewerentz, Carl August Ehrensvard, Erik Andersson, Ragnar Ostberg, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Helgo Zettervall, Uno Ahren, Jonas Lindvall, Adolf W. Edelsvard, Magnus Steendorff, Hans Westman, Herman Teodor Holmgren, Poul Hultberg, Ferdinand Boberg, Emil Victor Langlet, Carl Nyren, Bengt Lindroos, Bruno Mathsson, Jean de la Vallee, Fritz Eckert, Carl-Axel Acking, Daniel Cronstrom, Anders Linder, Erik Asmussen, Carl Christoffer Gjorwell, Nils Olsson, Jola Sigmond, Folke Zettervall, Sune Lindstrom, Tage William-Olsson, Sture Ljungqvist, Sidney White, Rudolf S. Enblom, Agi Lindegren. Excerpt: Gert Wingardh is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingardh arkitektkontor, maintains an international practice. Gert Wingardh was born 1951 into a wealthy family in Skovde, Vastergotland county, as the only child. His father owned the local cement factory and the family's house was built on a limestone mountain. Both cement and limestone are materials Wingardh later has used in his work. When Wingardh was ten the family moved to Gothenburg. After moving to Gothenburg he was bullied by other children for a while. As a teenager he took interest in art and cinema. Wingardh still lives in metropolitan Gothenburg, near Marstrand in Kungalv Municipality with his family. Wingardh studied economics, art history and architecture in t...
