John Jarlén is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists John Jarlén as Swedish architect (1880–1955).
John Jarlén was born at Gothenburg in 1880. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and artistic gymnast.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
John Jarlén died in 1955, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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