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, full name Sven Gottfrid Markelius (Stockholm, 25 October 1889 – Danderyd, 24 February 1972), was a Swedish architect, an important personality who adhered to the international style, introducing it to Sweden in the 1920s.

Since the early years of his business, Markelius has won numerous major design competitions throughout Sweden.

His design for a concert hall complex in Helsingborg (1925) is perhaps his major, award-winning work; its free and rectilinear forms, with their white walls and large windows, reflect the bold style that characterized European academic design. Worth mentioning is the Students' Club at Stockholm Polytechnic (1929), in collaboration with Uno Ahren, expanded then, in 1952, with Bengt Lindroo. Read the full biography

Sven Markelius Biography

, full name Sven Gottfrid Markelius (Stockholm, 25 October 1889 – Danderyd, 24 February 1972), was a Swedish architect, an important personality who adhered to the international style, introducing it to Sweden in the 1920s.

Since the early years of his business, Markelius has won numerous major design competitions throughout Sweden.

His design for a concert hall complex in Helsingborg (1925) is perhaps his major, award-winning work; its free and rectilinear forms, with their white walls and large windows, reflect the bold style that characterized European academic design. Worth mentioning is the Students' Club at Stockholm Polytechnic (1929), in collaboration with Uno Ahren, expanded then, in 1952, with Bengt Lindroo. Among his most experimental works we can mention the collective dwelling house in Stockholm (1935), consisting of kitchens, restaurants, nurseries and other domestic structures to accommodate families in which both parents they were busy working outside the home, which resulted in an interesting insertion into the pre-established city fabric. Markelius obtained international recognition with his project for the Swedish pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939, which was the first attempt to overcome or integration of rationalist architecture, through the expression of a style that also considered the psychological needs of the individual, as well as architecture free from dictatorial and nationalistic oppression. His house in Danderyd (1945), a villa characterized by a roof low, inserted in a natural environment of rocks and trees, became a prototype for informal houses, full of human meanings. He also distinguished himself with the "People's House" in Linköping (1954), for which he had to overcome the issue of insertion in an ancient environment, given the presence of the 13th century cathedral.