Architecture by Peter Celsing
Black and white photographs taken in the mid-1990s will be featured in my upcoming book published by Park Books.
"Peter Celsing (1920–74) belongs to the small group of Swedish modernist architects, including luminaries such as Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940) and Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), who have rightly attracted attention beyond the country's borders. How Celsing approached and carried out his commissions testifies to a great understanding of architecture as an applied art, where function and economy are important parameters. At the same time, during a major shift in the construction industry from more small-scale and artisanal to large-scale and prefabricated, Celsing managed the feat of running his projects with artistic integrity
"John Håkansson's black and white photographs, taken in the mid-1990s, capture the essence of Celsing’s buildings. In many cases, the images are now a valuable document of that era, since some of the buildings have changed, and not always in a favorable way. In this volume, supplemented by texts contributed by architect Staffan Henriksson and artist Maria Lantz, Håkansson's photography forms a sensitive portrait of Celsing's architecture."
Some of the images were exhibited in 2001 at the Stockholm Culture House (Kulturhuset).
