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Hans
Asplund trained as an architect at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1944 to 1947 and, in the same year, won first prize in a competition for a community centre in Eslöv. He was employed at the United Nations architectural office in New York 1947-1948, at the architectural
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Asplund was the son of the architect Gunnar Asplund and Gerda Sellman (born 1892). His father had distinguished himself early on as a classicist, and later as one of the pioneers of Swedish functionalism. Hans Asplund spent much of his life as a modernist, both a practising architect and a
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