The main focus of the essay is to understand the architect within a societal context and the network that make up a career. Architect Adrian Crispin Peterson started working in Uppsala for The National Property Board of Sweden (at the time called Överintendentsämbetet) after graduating from The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1866. Adrian Crispin Peterson is today mainly known for his church buildings after 1872, when he moved to Gothenburg, but was known in his own time for being the most productive architect in Sweden between 1870 and 1919. The early career of Adrian Crispin Peterson has not been studied before and his work in Uppsala becomes, through this essay, a way into examining the job assignments of an architect during the late 1860s and the early 1870s. Together with primary and secondary sources and triangulations of data in cross-examinations the author also examines the relationship between the architect and the builder through the idea of network and status. Although Adrian Crispin Peterson was the only architect in Uppsala at the time and having worked on Uppsala Cathedral and other major building projects, the lack of building activity in the city drove him to mainly do renovations and extensions of older buildings. Adrian Crispin Peterson built three new constructions in the city between 1867 and 1874 – another fourth one in Forsmark, north of Uppsala – all of them with the same aesthetic appearance but in variation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-488969 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Vainesworth, Christopher |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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