Research Seminar
27 October 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM
Johan Linton
Jan Wallinder and Francesco Borromini – A modest modernist architect studies the Roman baroque
Jan Wallinder (1915-2006) belongs to the second generation of Swedish modern architects. He was the youngest collaborator of Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) and Professor at the School of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg between 1959 and 1980. His built work, mainly in Gothenburg, is representative of the solid architecture associated with ”Folkhemmet”, the political project to build the Swedish welfare state. Although modest as a person and as an architect, Wallinder in his youth studied Francesco Borromini and got influenced by his architecture.
Johan Linton is Associate Professor (Docent) at the School of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He has a long-standing interest in Italian architectural culture and its influence in Sweden and has written on the subject from different angles. He was, among other things, responsible for the only Swedish publication in relation to the 500th anniversary of the Italian renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 2008. He is a founding member of the Swedish cultural review Arche and has been responsible for its design and its content of architecture since the first issue was published in March 2002. He held the Fellowship in Architecture at Istituto svedese di studi classici a Roma in 2001–2002. He was Visiting Professor at IUAV, the School of architecture in Venice, in 2021. He runs his own artist studio in Gothenburg and has received awards for both his scientific and his artistic work.