Tage William-Olsson (8 June 1888 – 22 August 1960) was a Swedish

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and chief town planning architect of

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. He was one of the designers of the

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traffic-roundabout

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-project built during 1935 in

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Biography

Carl Martin Tage William-Olsson was born in

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, England. His parents were Swedish businessman William Olof Olsson (1862-1923) and his wife Maria Bergman (1862-1954). His brother William Frits William-Olsson (1902-1990) was a professor of Economic Geography at the

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. In 1896, the family moved to

where his father founded the Lundsbergs boarding school (''Lundsbergs skola''). William-Olsson attended the

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1906–1907. He graduated in engineering at

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(1908). He took a job as metallurgist at AB Gröndals Patents in Stockholm. In 1925 he started his own architectural firm which he had until 1930, when he became an employee of the city planning office in Stockholm. From 1935 to 1943, he had his own architectural firm in Stockholm. From 1943 to 1953, he was the city planning manager in

. In the 1930s, Lundborg proposed a design for the area of Slussenområdet in central Stockholm. The planning commission for the Slussen construction project included architects Tage William-Olsson and Holger Blom (1906- 1996), in collaboration city planning officials including engineer Gösta Lundborg (1883-1959).

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*Eva Rudberg (2004) ''Tage William-Olsson : stridbar planerare och visionär arkitekt'' ( Stockholmia förlag) Swedish architects 1888 births 1960 deaths Alumni of the University of Sheffield KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni {{Sweden-architect-stub