Carl Nyrén (11 November 1917 – 6 November 2011) was a

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architect. Sparbanks-huset 2009

Biography

Nyrén was born in

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, Sweden. Nyrén was the son of Johan Albert and Gertrud Nyrén and grew up in Hovslätt as the youngest of six children. He graduated from the

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during 1942. He was first employed by modernist architect

Paul Hedqvist Paul Hedqvist (21 July 1895 Stockholm - 23 June 1977) was a Swedish modernist architect with many official commissions in Sweden through the 1930s, including housing projects, major bridges, many schools, and urban planning work. His practice ev ...

. Nyrén was initially influenced by the

modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

of Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940). Later in the 1960s, developed towards structuralistic architecture. During the last two decades of his career, his buildings have were characterized by a romantic,

humanistic Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "humanism" ha ...

style. His office
Nyréns Arkitektkontor
AB was founded in 1948. The firm employs architects, interior designers and construction engineers. It remains one of Sweden's leading architectural firms. Carl Nyrén died on November 6, 2011, five days before what would have been his 94th birthday.

Buildings

* School of Economics at

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, 1952 * Faculty of Education,

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, 1963 and 1973 * Arrhenius Laboratory at

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, 1973 * Sparbankshuset, Stockholm, 1973-1975 * Gottsunda Church, Uppsala, 1980 * Uppsala City Library, 1986 * Extension of the

County Museum, 1991 * "Artisten", education facility for music and theater, University of Gothenburg, 1992 * Vitlycke Museum, Tanum, 1999 *

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, Uppsala, 2000 *

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, Varberg, 2012

References

External links

Nyréns Arkitektkontor websiteObituary - Nyrens ArkitektkontorDödsannons - SVD
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nyren, Carl Swedish architects 1917 births 2011 deaths People from Jönköping KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal