Peter Celsing

Peter Elof Herman Torsten Folke (January 29, 1920 – March 16, 1974) was a Swedish modernist architect.

Celsing was born in , Sweden and was the son of bank executive Folke von Celsing and Margareta (née Norström) and brother of diplomat Lars von Celsing and the doctor Fredrik Celsing. He studied at the architectural school of the Royal Institute of Technology in , and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Celsing has been the assistant of the widely known Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz. According to Adam Caruso, it was Celsing that helped Lewerentz to win the design competition for the St. Mark. This building and the later St. Petri are now known as a startingpoint of Brutalism. He later became professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology. After working for some time in Beirut, he became head of the architectural office of , the Stockholm tram and local railway authority, and built a number of suburban metro stations. He also designed several churches: in Härlanda (Gothenburg), Almtuna (Uppsala), and Vällingby, a much-publicized modernist suburb of .

Celsing often worked in a brutalist style with large exposed grey concrete surfaces, but occasionally combined this with large glass panes exposing the structure of the building from the outside, and interior details in wood. The best known examples of this are the Kulturhuset ("House of Culture") at Sergels torg in central Stockholm (1966–1971), the Filmhuset, the house of the Swedish Film Institute on Gärdet in Stockholm (1968–1970), and his addition to Carolina Rediviva, the main building of the Uppsala University Library (1953–1962). In Uppsala, Celsing also built a new wing for the building (begun in 1961), and the current Ekonomikum building (completed 1976).

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