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Rödabergsområdet: a verdant small town idyll within the city

Chiara Monterumisi

On the rocky peaks of the hilly area in north-western outskirts Stockholm, more than forty architects gave their contribution to approximately 2,500 dwelling units comprising the neighbourhood so-called Rödabergsområdet, which corresponds to one of the lon ...

2021

"Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte" is the latest in-depth contribution by Atli Magnus Seelow, one of several by him on the 1930 Stockholm exhibition and the book accepetera, the 200-page text often referred to as ‘the manifesto of Swedish function ...

2021

Giedion goes to Stockholm. A look at Swedish efforts in the social and housing question

Chiara Monterumisi

During one of his many trips around Europe to observe the state of contemporary architecture, Sigfried Giedion went to Stockholm in 1930. On returning to Zurich, he published two extensive pa-pers about the city and the Stockholm Exhibition. The goal here ...

AISU International2020

The 1930 Stockholm exhibition was promoted as a breaking point in Swedish architecture, especially for its proposals for novel housing production and design. Starting from that moment, Swedish building initiatives progressively gained worldwide acclaim on ...

ArkDes - Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design2020

GIEDION GOES TO STOCKHOLM. A look at Swedish efforts in the social and housing question

Chiara Monterumisi

The journeys throughout Europe for attesting the state of contemporary architecture brought the great passionate promoter of the Modern Movement, Sigfried Giedion, also to Stockholm. One month after the opening of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition, generally c ...

2019

Sweden forms a strange case in the modern development, which this paper aims to examine in detail through the first housing district experiments in Stockholm. Its position on the fringe of the radical ferment of Europe implied a belated advent of modernism ...

2019

Genius loci e memorie urbane. Il progetto di Ragnar Östberg per l’area di Eldkvarn

Chiara Monterumisi

The paper explores the city of Stockholm, apparently far from the main tracks of other significant European examples due to its peculiar morphological features. The study investigates the Stockholm Town Hall (Stadshuset) and the nearby never-to-be realized ...

2018

Ragnar Östberg. Villa Geber, una casa nell'arcipelago

Chiara Monterumisi

ITA. Il principale obiettivo del libro è il superamento dell’univocità di interesse manifestata dalla critica per quella chef-d’oeuvre di Ragnar Östberg che è il Municipio di Stoccolma. Ciò si concretizza nel tentativo di delineare un nuovo apporto esegeti ...

Edibus Comunicazione2017

When the North meets the "key to everything". From Ragnar Östberg to Erik Gunnar Asplund

Chiara Monterumisi

«Beyond the city there was a wide plain, which sloped gently towards the sea and it was dominated by a semicircle of mountains. The soil of such plain was shimmering red, the sea looked blue enamel, the mountain slopes were brilliant yellow. It was a count ...

2017

WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? Stockholm – Vienna’s large courtyard blocks

Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to look back on some valuable accomplishments at the beginning of the 20th century, built in Stockholm (1916-1930) and Vienna (1919-1933). Far from a mere process of revising history, those first dwelling attempts demonstrate h ...

2017