Ivar Tengbom belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Ivar Tengbom as Swedish architect (1878-1968).
Ivar Tengbom was born at Gränna in 1878. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Chalmers University 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 and university teacher.
Among his best-known works are City Palace, Högalid Church and Stockholm Concert Hall. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Royal Gold Medal and Prince Eugen Medal.
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.
Ivar Tengbom died in 1968, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: City Palace
- Notable work: Högalid Church
- Notable work: Stockholm Concert Hall
- Notable work: Esselte building
- Royal Gold Medal
- Prince Eugen Medal
- Trained at Chalmers University of Technology
