Peter Celsing

Peter Celsing was a Swedish modernist architect. Born in Stockholm, Celsing studied at the architectural school of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 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 Stockholms Spårvägar, the Stockholm tram and local railway authority, and built a number of suburban metro stations. He also designed several churches: in Härlanda, Almtuna, and Vällingby, a much-publicized modernist suburb of Stockholm. 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.