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Ingrid Wallberg
Ingrid Wallberg (4 May 1890 – 23 January 1965) was a Sweden, Swedish architect. Known for her functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs, she became the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm. Life Ingrid Wallberg was born on 4 May 1890 to an affluent family in Halmstad, Sweden, where her family owned the textile and brick industries :sv:Wallbergs Fabriks AB, Wallbergs Fabriks AB and :sv:Slottsmöllans tegelbruk, Slottsmöllans tegelbruk. Her father was the managing director of Wallbergs Fabriks AB. Wallberg spent much of her childhood at Villa Ekebo in Halmstad and attended the Djursholm school. In 1908, she fell ill with an ocular disorder and went to Berlin to live with one of her sisters. While in Berlin, she undertook an urban construction programme the following year. In 1915, she studied architecture at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule and simultaneously had private tutoring in constructional drawing and perspective drawing. At the age of 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halmstad
Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... at the mouth of the Nissan (river), Nissan river, in the provinces of Sweden, province of Halland on the Sweden, Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The city had a population of 70,480 in 2019, out of a municipal total of over 100,000 (19th most populous — 2019). Halmstad is Sweden's 19th-largest city by population and located about midway between Gothenburg (the second most populous) and Malmö (the third). Timber framing architecture is common. History Halmstad, at the time part of the Kingdom of Denmark, received its first city charter in 1307, and the city celebrated its 700th anniversary in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |