Portrait of Gunnar Asplund. © Arkitekturmuseet

Erik Gunnar Asplund was born in Stockholm on 22 September 1885. He took his high school examination at Norra Latin in Stockholm in 1904. From 1905-1909 he studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he also graduated as an architect in 1909. At that time you where not considered to be an architect without two years of further study at the Royal Academy of Art. >>

Biography   born in Stockholm.   1885   High School diploma, Norra Latin, Stockholm.   1904   studied at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.   1905-09   graduated as an architect.   1909   further studies at a private school in Stockholm, 'Klara skolan', under the direction of four well-known architects: Ragnar Östberg, Carl Westman, Ivar Tengbom and Carl Bergsten.   1909   'Le grande tour' to France and Italy.   1914   editor of the Swedish architecture review Arkitektur.   1917-20   married Gerda Sellman, with whom he had four children.   1918   appointed professor in Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology.   1931   married Ingrid Kling, who was previously married to the architect Lars Israel Wahlman.   1934   died in Stockholm.   1940