Fredrik Lilljekvist belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Fredrik Lilljekvist as Swedish architect (1863–1932).
Fredrik Lilljekvist was born at Stockholm in 1863. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Royal Institute of Technology.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Commander 1st class of the Order of Vasa, Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, commander of the Order of the Dannebrog and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Fredrik Lilljekvist died in 1932, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Commander 1st class of the Order of Vasa
- Commander of the Order of the Polar Star
- commander of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Trained at Royal Institute of Technology
