Abstract

During his several trips to Italy, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) decided to collect through a series of photographs the fascinations and the most captivating aspects of the places visited. !e predilection for the camera over the cahier of drawings, more usual among architects engaged in the same years in their Mediterranean itineraries, allowed him to research and collect a substantial sample of images about details and portions of architecture, especially from the monuments of Rome and the ancient world. !e itineraries of his travels remain unknown, although they can be partially reconstructed through sporadic individuations. However, the references to a characteristic way of designing remain evident, in which the constructive details and the relations between the spaces that make up the buildings, are linked through the larger portions of the landscape in which they are placed.