On Friday 20th of February, VISU-member Jelrik Hupkes will present his research during the Research Seminars in Architecture at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm. The seminar will feature a double presentation by recent ArkDes guest resident Dr Anna Livia Vørsel and Hupkes.
Jelrik Hupkes will present:
Engström and the Others: Swedish Single-Family Housing Architecture and the Welfare State during the Interbellum, 1918–1939
During the interbellum (1918-1939), the Swedish urban landscape changed drastically, with the single-family house becoming one of the most dominant housing typologies in the country. The development of this typology was inherently connected to the emerging Swedish welfare state. A key figure was architect Edvin Engström (1890-1971), who played a decisive role in the development of single-family housing architecture in the Stockholm region during the interbellum. But next to Engström, there were many other architects whose contribution to this development remains unexplored. This project, therefore, takes the architecture of Edvin Engström as a starting point to look at important single-family housing projects from this time by other architects from the ArkDes collections, such as Bergslagsbyn by Osvald Almqvist, Nora trädgårdsstad by Ferdinand Eggert, Domsjöverken by Ingeborg Waern Bugge and Sture Frölen’s Näsby Slottspark. As such, it aims to explore these projects and their relation to the emerging welfare state during this period: What role did the emerging welfare state have on the development and design of single-family housing areas during the interbellum in Sweden? And what ideologies, economic concepts and social ideas were driving these developments?
Dr Anna Livia Vørsel will present:
Kommunhus, Kommunalhus, Stadshus: The Architecture of Swedish Democracy
In this seminar, Anna Livia Vørsel will be presenting the findings from her recent time as a guest researcher at ArkDes. The project ‘Kommunhus, Kommunalhus, Stadshus’ looks in detail at municipal buildings built in Sweden between the 1930s and 1980s, and is based on materials from the collection in the ArkDes archive. The project reflects on the historical changes of kommun- and stadshus through the development and retrenchment of the Swedish welfare state, and looks in detail at fifteen buildings across Sweden through sketches, drawings, documents, photographs and one special issue of a very interesting newspaper.
Programme
Time: 13:15
Location: Conference Room 6th Floor of the Architecture School Room A608
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67185547897