page_title: Gert Wingårdh
section_title: Architectural style
hierarchical_section_title: Gert Wingårdh / Architectural style
caption_attribution_description: English: Gert Wingårdh (2017)
context_page_description: Gert Wingårdh is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingårdh arkitektkontor, maintains an international practice.
context_section_description: Gert Wingårdh started as a Postmodernist in the 1980s, as one of the architects who broke away from the strong Functionalist (International style) norm that held sway over Scandinavia longer than in other countries.
  He is known to pick up new trends in architecture quickly and interpret them with a personal expressive language which integrates the surrounding landscapes into the projects: "His buildings do not stubbornly adhere to one style but are a response to the task in hand and the surrounding environmental conditions. Sweden’s [sic] rich tradition of building with wood and a strong ecological awareness is combined with high tech expertise".
  Wingårdh has himself described his architecture as ”high organic”, combining high tech with organic architecture. He also has been described as a ”maximalist” rather than a ”minimalist”, his buildings being ”a kind of modern baroque”. He has shown influences from and kinship with such different architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, Hans Scharoun, Carlo Scarpa, Frank Gehry and Peter Zumthor. Another paradoxical description states that his buildings are both ”playful” and ”strict”.
  A feature of Wingårdh's is to surprise the visitors of the buildings, keeping the entrance of a building low and then ”heighten the sense of space and drama when entering the main rooms”. He also has a good knowledge of details as well as an understanding of intricate building structures which requires good knowledge of sociological processes and human behaviour.
caption: Gert Wingårdh (2017)
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