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    Sven Gottfrid Markelius (25 October 1889 – 24 February 1972) was a Swedish modernist architect. Markelius played an important role in the post-war urban...
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    Ernest Cormier (Canada), Le Corbusier (France), Liang Seu-cheng (China), Sven Markelius (Sweden), Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil), Howard Robertson (United Kingdom)...
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    building Nymble was designed by leading Swedish modernists Uno Åhrén and Sven Markelius in 1928 and inaugurated in 1930; it is significant as one of the first...
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    the world. The original plan for the area was designed by architect Sven Markelius (1889–1972) city planning director in Stockholm, who placed high-rise...
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  • Sven Jaschan, German computer programmer Sven Lidman (clergyman) (1786-1845), Swedish priest and Orientalist Sven Markelius, Swedish architect Sven Nykvist...
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    activities. This pavilion only operated during the 1939 season. Sweden Sven Markelius and Pomerance & Breines A set of buildings around a central garden,...
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    Costa (Brasil), Walter Gropius (United States), Le Corbusier (France), Sven Markelius (Sweden) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (Italy), in collaboration with Eero...
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    contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius. What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries...
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    North America at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The architects Sven Markelius and Anders Beckman chose the Dala horse because they were searching...
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    Lallerstedt, Gunnar Leche, Sven Markelius, Gunnar Morssing, George Nilsson, Ture Ryberg, Albin Stark, Eskil Sundahl, Lars Israel Wahlman, Sven Wallander, Hakon...
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