ABSTRACT
The Woodland Chapel stands in the extensive grounds of the Woodland Cremato-rium, on the outskirts of Stockholm. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund just after the First World War, it was intended for the funerals of children. At first sight the chapel appears simple and without pretensions to being anything more than a rudimentary hut in the woods. But Asplund managed to imbue this unassuming, elemental building with a remarkable range of apt poetic ideas. The subject of the ‘poem’ is, of course, death.
