Swedish architect. He attended the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1910 to 1915. He was very interested in the problems of housing and urban planning, leading him to become one of the founding members of CIAM (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne). As City Planning Director in Stockholm from to 1944 to 1954 he oversaw the creation of new suburbs on the subway such as Vällingby (1950–56), the preparation of the master plan of 1952 and redevelopment plans for the city center. Due to his prominent within CIAM, he was involved with two United Nations projects. He designed the Social and Economic Council meeting room for the United Nations Headquarters in New York (1953) and served as one of “the Five,” the architectural advisors who exerted great control over the design of the UNESCO headquarters.
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