Abstract
This paper focuses on the topography of Skogskyrkogarden (The Woodland Cemetery), designed by Sigurd Lewerentz and Erik Gunnar Asplund, beginning in 1914. Rather than determining formal or stylistic affinities, this research explores the primary understanding of the ground for the scheme itself, within the wider socio-cultural context of the time. Examining the architects’ profound pre-occupation with the site’s actual ground reveals some of the key ways the site was (re)articulated as a syncretic topography that endeavoured to enable renewed linkages between the living and the dead. Probing this tensional ground moreover affords us opportunities to better understand how this pre-occupation was aligned with the modern attempt to re-establish a more meaningful existence via a more grounded and authentic reality.
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