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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 ...
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 ...
Travelling experiences along the cradle of European culture were, especially for Scandinavian architects, an outright voyage towards a contrasting cultural and geographical reality. However, assuming an unconditional fascination as natural reaction is redu ...
Catalogue of the exhibition "HOUSING Frankfurt Wien Stockholm" 18 September – 2 November 2018 Project Room Archizoom EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland. The catalogue contains some critical papers written in the years when the hous ...
The goal of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition was to illustrate a national project around dwellings and household goods for the Swedish mass. Indeed, in the manifesto acceptera, the organisers masterminded by Gregor Paulsson, investigated the cultural situatio ...
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 ...
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 ...
Far from nostalgically celebrate the 90th anniversary of the second CIAM, which indeed opened in October 1929 in Frankfurt, the present issue is intended as collective work, a springboard which aims to widen the debate over housing experiences beyond geogr ...
The label «People’s home» coined by Swedish Social-Democrats expresses the first step towards the 1930s, 40s and early 50s, which would make Sweden a model for war-ravaged Europe. But “people” and “home” attracted planners, architects, co-operatives and po ...
«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 ...