Skogskyrkogården

This guide to Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm follows two young architects, Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, who entered a 1914 competition to design a cemetery that felt like a forest rather than a field of headstones, and split the winning job between them. You'll hear about the windowless chapel Asplund built in 1920, lit only through a single opening in its domed ceiling, and the sculptor Carl Milles brought in to crown its roof with a bronze figure. It describes the uproar that greeted that figure among the first mourners who saw it.