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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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Since the aftermath of the II world-war till recent years, Nordic countries have looked as inspiring social and architectural models to the rest of Europe. Nevertheless, very few attentions have been addressed towards the first bases of their developments, ...
2020
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
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 paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e internazionalismo architettonico" (1929) and the book "La casa popolare" (1935) where he embedded some Nordic examples among the first ever presented to the Italian a ...
RomaTRE PRESS2020
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Frankfurt, Vienna and Stockholm: three European cities which played a fundamental role in the housing policies implemented during the inter-war period. The research projects and teaching activity carried out at the EPFL in the Laboratory of Construction an ...
Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...
Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...
