He also undertook studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1914–1917, one of his most influential teachers being Ivar Tengbom.

[citation needed] He was best known as the official architect for the repair and restoration of Gripsholm Castle, near the town of Mariefred, in central Sweden.

He was one of the founding members and first president of the Swedish Architects' Association and was known as an active participant in architectural debates.

[3] As an architect, he was part of the brief movement called Nordic Classicism, but with clear links with Swedish vernacular architecture, as expressed in the simple wooden houses he designed for the Swedish trade union-run folk high school Brunnsvik folkhögskola) in Ludvika parish, during 1928.

His most important works are the Arts and Crafts pavilion of the Gothenburg exhibition in 1923 and the PUB department store in central Stockholm, from 1924.