Hans Gustaf Westman was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 architect mainly active in Scania

Scania

Scania is the southernmost of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden, constituting a peninsula on the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, and some adjacent islands. The modern administrative subdivision Skåne County is almost, but not totally, congruent with the...

, Sweden's most Southern province. He performed approximately 120 works in the city of Lund

Lund

-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...

 inspired by works of Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...

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Hans Westman practised as an architect in Skåne from 1932 until 1983. His works united regional cultural tradition with functionalism

Functionalism (architecture)

Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession, particularly in regard to modern...

, attempting to create a new, Westmannian regional architecture instead of recreating old models. At the same time, Westman resented functionalists' neglect of the human factor that manifested itself in large scale buildings with routinely applied monotonous patterna. Westman's critique became a driving motive for a humanistic development in architecture of Lund.

Buildings

Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

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• Expansion of Saint Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm
  Saint Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm
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   (1983)

Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

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• Bylgiahuset
• Mellanhedsskolan

Linköping

Linköping

Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

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• Sporthallen (1956)
• Simhallen (1965)

Lund:

• Tingshuset
• Polishuset
• Linnéstaden (1945-1948)
• Tomegapsgatan 13 och 15 (1951)
• Kalmar nation (1952)
• Gothenburg nation "Kållehus" (1951)
• Studentlyckan (1958)
• Parentheses (1962)
• Ulrikedal (1963)
• Delphi (1964-1967)
• Fyrklöverhuset (Delphi, Kämnärsvägen, Gylleholmsvägen)
• Lunds badhus (1938, rivet 1978)
• Idrottshallen I Lund (1941)
• Villa Westman (1939)