The Most Famous
Architects from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 8 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 19th most number of Architects behind Belgium and Hungary.
Top 8 Swedish Architects
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Architects of all time. This list of famous Swedish Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Gunnar Asplund
1885 - 1940
HPI 65.6930 langsGunnar Asplund is most famous for being the architect of the Stockholm City Hall.
- #2
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
1654 - 1728
HPI 62.5121 langsSwedish architect (1654-1728)
- #3
William Chambers
1723 - 1796
HPI 60.6822 langsScottish-Swedish architect
- #4
Augustin Ehrensvärd
1710 - 1772
HPI 60.1217 langsSwedish military officer, military architect, and artist (1710-1772)
- #5
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz
1716 - 1796
HPI 57.7717 langsSwedish architect (1716-1796)
- #6
Ragnar Östberg
1866 - 1945
HPI 56.3517 langsSwedish architect
- #7
Sven Markelius
1889 - 1972
HPI 55.6415 langsSwedish architect (1889–1972)
- #8
Ferdinand Boberg
1860 - 1946
HPI 54.7517 langsSwedish architect
Overlapping Lives
Which Architects were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 6 most globally memorable Architects since 1700.
