Abstract
Although far less famous than his Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm City Library or Gothenburg Law Courts, Gunnar Asplund's National Bacteriological Laboratories at Solna occupy a special place in his work, epitomising his short-lived functionalist phase. Dedicated, in the period before antibiotics, to the elimination of dangerous diseases and the production of anti-serums, the laboratories also reflect the general concern with health and hygiene that so deeply imbued modernist thinking. But after his long exposure to history and search for appropriate style, Asplund's interpretation could not avoid tacitly embracing social and symbolic issues alongside the purely technical and, for an architect so sensitive to contextual issues, nor could it avoid engagement with the landscape.
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