Sigurd Lewerentz : St. Petri at 50: Context, Fragments & Influence

During a career that spanned more than sixty years, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz challenged the very language of architecture-from his early sublime classicism to the raw, honest, archaic forms of his later buildings which culminated in his masterpiece in Klippan, The Church of Saint Peter. This exhibition celebrates Lewerentz's accomplishments at St Petri through archival drawings, images, and fragments of process, placing it within the lineage of his greater body of work. To accompany the exhibition, this publication on the building and its architect investigates the structure's continued validity in a contemporary context. Through invited essays from architects and leading scholars on his work, this book serves as a manual for the exhibition and provides numerous answers to the question: "Why is this building important?" English and Swedish text