Sigurd Lewerentz trained first as a mechanical engineer at Chalmers, then apprenticed in Germany and studied under Westman, Östberg and Tengbom. In 1915 he and Gunnar Asplund won the competition for Stockholm's Woodland Cemetery, a landscape of pine and grass that remains one of the century's great works; Lewerentz built the Chapel of the Resurrection there and laid out the Way of the Cross. He fell out with the profession after the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and spent much of the next two decades running a factory that made his own patented steel windows and fittings. Two churches at the very end of his life — St Mark's at Björkhagen and St Peter's at Klippan — reopened his career and made him a cult figure: brick laid without cutting, glass clipped to the outside of the wall, nothing explained.
