...but had recently completed two major projects that would provide an important critique of modernism: the Gothenburg Law Courts and the Woodland Crematorium in the Enskede cemetery. As the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto stated in his obituary of Asplund. "Sweden--above all architecture--has suffered a great loss. The first of its architects, who served in the broad sense as pioneers and pathfinders for contemporary living architecture has departed from our midst?' For Aalto, Asplund's work "... was an architecture based on no ordinary scale system--here everything started with people and all the innumerable strands of their emotional life, and with nature. All of Asplund's works clearly convey the same affinity with nature, including man as a part." Nature and her world of forms coupled with psychological and social issues informed Asplund's architecture, creating an alternative that shunned the "rootless technocratic constructivism" comprising much of the then contemporary modernism. (Alvar...

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