In the history of building, Yngve Ekström is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Yngve Ekström as Swedish architect and designer (1913–1988).
Yngve Ekström was born at Hagafors in 1913. 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 designer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Yngve Ekström died in 1988, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
