Hans Westman

Hans Gustaf Westman (9 March 1905 – 17 November 1991) was a Swedish architect mainly active in Scania, Sweden's most Southern province. He performed approximately 120 works in the city of Lund inspired by works of Le Corbusier .

Hans Westman practised as an architect in Skåne from 1932 until 1983. His works united regional cultural tradition with functionalism, attempting to create a new, Westmannian regional architecture instead of recreating old models. At the same time, Westman resented functionalists' neglect of the human factor that manifested itself in large scale buildings with routinely applied monotonous patterns. Westman's critique became a driving motive for a humanistic development in architecture of Lund.^[1]

Buildings

Stockholm:

• Expansion of Saint Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm (1983)

Malmö:

• Bylgiahuset
• Mellanhedsskolan

Linköping:

• Sporthallen (1956)
• Simhallen (1965)

Lund:

• Tingshuset
• Polishuset
• Linnéstaden (1945-1948)
• Tomegapsgatan 13 och 15 (1951)
• Kalmar nation (1952)
• Gothenburg nation "Kållehus" (1951)
• Studentlyckan (1958)
• Parentheses (1962)
• Ulrikedal (1963)
• Delphi (1964-1967)
• Fyrklöverhuset (Delphi, Kämnärsvägen, Gylleholmsvägen)
• Lunds badhus (1938, rivet 1978)
• Idrottshallen I Lund (1941)
• Villa Westman (1939)

References