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Åhrén, Uno [1897-1977. Sweden. Architect/Town Planner]
Åhrén, Uno [1897-1977. Sweden. Architect/Town Planner]
Uno Åhrén was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 August 1897 and trained as an architect at the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan in Stockholm from where he graduated in 1918, He subsequently worked as architect and town planner. He was a proponent of functionalism, principle that buildings should be designed based solely on the purpose and function of the building. From 1932 to 1943 was employed as City Planning Manager in Gothenberg. Åhrén also designed furniture, examples of which were shown at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925. He died in Arvika, Sweden on 8 October 1977
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