ABSTRACT
Essay 6 examined the interpretation of the Christian church that was the product of the last years of Sigurd Lewerentz’s life. 1 In the churches of St Mark at Björkhagen and St Peter at Klippan, Lewerentz realised a remarkable synthesis of the elements of architecture (form, material and environment) that was without precedent and, even though these buildings are widely admired, without direct progeny. They stand as the products of an original imagination, enigmatic and provocative. But, most significantly, they declare the potentiality of the methods of modern architecture to give expression to the sacred.
