[2] Hans Asplund trained as an architect at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1944 to 1947 and, in the same year, won first prize in a competition for a community centre in Eslöv.

Hans Asplund spent much of his life as a modernist, both a practising architect and a teacher.

He designed the Medborgarhuset in Eslöv and an extension to the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in Stockholm 1963.

Hans Asplund is said to have coined the term neo-brutalism in a joking comment in 1950 on the Villa Göth in Uppsala, designed by Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.

Over time, Hans Asplund became increasingly critical of modernism and, in 1980, published the book Farväl till functionalism, which systematically reviewed what the author considered to be the shortcomings of modernist architecture.