Architect. Isak Gustaf Clason studied engineering and later architecture at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he was a student of A. T. Gellerstedt, and later at the architectural school of the Academy of Arts. He received the royal medal in 1881 and studied abroad from 1883 to 1886. He was elected member of the Academy of Arts in 1889, appointed professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1889 and became first surveyor in the Chief Surveyor's Office in 1904. His first major work was the Bünsow building from 1886 to 1888 at Strandvägen in Stockholm, commissioned by the sawmill baron Friedrich Bünsow. This building broke new ground in the use of natural material of limestone and bricks throughout rather than the plaster, which had been dominant in Swedish architecture until that point. His largest commission was the Nordic Museum on Djurgården, which he began in collaboration with M. Isaeus but continued alone after Isaeus's death in 1890. The building was partly finished for the Stockholm Exhibition in 1897, and completed a few years later.
Architect. Isak Gustaf Clason studied engineering and later architecture at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he was a student of A. T. Gellerstedt, and later at the architectural school of the Academy of Arts. He received the royal medal in 1881 and studied abroad from 1883 to 1886. He was elected member of the Academy of Arts in 1889, appointed professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1889 and became first surveyor in the Chief Surveyor's Office in 1904. His first major work was the Bünsow building from 1886 to 1888 at Strandvägen in Stockholm, commissioned by the sawmill baron Friedrich Bünsow. This building broke new ground in the use of natural material of limestone and bricks throughout rather than the plaster, which had been dominant in Swedish architecture until that point. His largest commission was the Nordic Museum on Djurgården, which he began in collaboration with M. Isaeus but continued alone after Isaeus's death in 1890. The building was partly finished for the Stockholm Exhibition in 1897, and completed a few years later.
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