One of the 179 wooden houses Leif Grung designed within the Nymark Public Housing Project (1923 – 1927). Click Grung Colour Blog entry # 11. Firefighter Nielsen and his family lived in the unit above. Photo: Leif Grung.
Leif Grung: Villa Lau Eide, 1935
Leif Grung made this house for his sister and her husband. The house was baptised Villa Lau Eide. A powerful example of Grung’s functionalistic ideas.
Snake + church. Sketch from one of Grung’s Italian voyages. Year unknown.
Leif Grung: Søre van der Weldes vei 4, ca 1934
This is one of my Grung favourites. It’s situated two houses from where i lived myself. It’s just four houses away from where Leif lived himself (look below) – in the quartier of Bergen called Paradis. Between 1928 and 1945 he designed and raised around 40 Grung houses in this area. His own vision was 200 houses – which his death made impossible.
This cisterciensian monastery was built in 1341 in Certosa - in the outskirts of Florence. Since then it has made a profound impact on modern architecture. Especially due to Le Corbuisier's visit im 1910: “I saw, in the harmonious countryside of Tuscany, a modern city crowning the top of a hill" - The complex of monk dormitories on the hill top inspired him deeply. Certosa gave him ideas on how to organize his own urban apartment visions. Leif Grung was deeply inspired by Le Corbuisier. This might have been the reason for his Certosa-visit in 1921. During the visit he made the sketch above.
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