- Lausanne, Switzerland
Chiara Monterumisi
EPFL, ENAC IA LCC, Post-Doc
- Architecture, Architectural History, Urban History, Architecture and Public Spaces, Nordic Architecture, Swedish Design, and 27 moreModern Architecture, Swedish architecture, Ragnar Östberg, Scandinavian Studies, National Romanticism, Arts and Crafts, The trip to North of Italian Architects, Role of Culture in Architecture, Exhibition Design (Architecture), Theory Of Architecture, Architecture and Travel, Grand Tour, Architectural Theory, Fin de Siecle Literature & Culture, Revivalism and historicism in architecture, particularly medievalism, Art Nouveau, Nordic Studies, History of Residential Architecture and Urban Planning, Housing and Dwelling (Architecture), History of architecture, Historia y Teoria del Arte y la Arquitectura, Arquitectura y Diseño, Historia de la Arquitectura, Teoria de la Arquitectura, Swedish History, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, and Housing & Residential Designedit
- Chiara Monterumisi (PhD) is architect and now visiting researcher at the EPFL-École Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne... moreChiara Monterumisi (PhD) is architect and now visiting researcher at the EPFL-École Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She joined the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation (LCC) head by Luca Ortelli in March 2016 as Post-Doc Fellow, where she stayed for three years. There, she conducted two research projects about social housing interventions in the interwar-period, with a particular regard to Sweden and Denmark. The methodology applied here comprises of a historical examination based on archival items and dedicated literature with a typological and morphological analysis of the selected case-studies.
The first research project, Stockholm: Housing in the Interwar Period, was entirely granted from the SNSF-Swiss National Science Foundation. The goal was to examine the transformations in the urban policies of the Swedish capital city and, then, comparing the multiple experimentations in architectural models and dwelling layout for the design of the housing districts.
After completing the SNSF research grant, she aims to widen the perspective on the Nordic housing production. The focus goes to the nearby Denmark, specifically she investigates the work of Kay Fisker in Copenhagen.
Her pieces of writing have been published as papers and books’ chapters in international publications, mainly in Italian, English and French.
As a member of the LCC, she is one of the scientific curators of the exhibition “HOUSING” (18th September - 2nd November 2018) held at the EPFL aims to display the morphological and typological variety through a selection of remarkable examples of Frankfurt, Wien and Stockholm 1920s-1930s housing complexes.
Together with professor Luca Ortelli (head of the Lab LCC) and Dr. Alessandro Porotto, she is guest curator for the forthcoming issue (vol. 4, issue 3, September 2019) entitled «Housing Builds Cities» for the open access double blind reviewed journal “Urban Planning”.
She is also one of the session coordinators, namely “News from the Nordic countries or an epoch of action”, for the forthcoming 9th AISU International Conference which will take place at the Alma Mater Studiorium – Università di Bologna in September 2019.
She has recently published a book, entitled «Ragnar Östberg. Villa Geber: a house in the archipelago» (Vicenza: Edibus, July 2017), which was entirely supported by the C.M. Lerici Stiftelsen. The book recasts the twofold focus of the Ph. D. dissertation by addressing here, with much more details, the domestic project of villa Geber.
In 2011, she completed the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Architecture at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy). There, she also obtained the Ph.D. degree in “Architecture and Design Cultures” in 2015 with the thesis «Ragnar Östberg. Genius loci and urban memories. Stockholms Stadshus-Nämndhus and villa Geber». During the doctoral school, she was also teaching assistant at the I B.Sc.’s design studio. Thanks to the 6-month research scholarship provided by the C.M. Lerici Stiftelsen, she was visiting researcher at the KTH-Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm (Sweden) for finalizing her Ph.D. study.edit
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... more
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 geographical and temporal frameworks. The focus of that event, the Existenzminimum , has often been cited as representing a fundamental contribution to the rational design of the modern dwelling. But, the debates during that event went beyond the definition of this concept, because demonstrated, on the one hand, how the responsibility of architects would imply the resolution of multiple technical aspects, starting from the typological concern stretching towards the town planning aspects, and on the other hand, the calling to develop a multifaceted intellectual vision of society. The title selected for the present issue denotes the different scales of the project, the aim is to achieve a something more. First and foremost, the objective is not strictly confined to a historical understanding of facts around the 1929 congress. Today a critically objective approach is useful to examine past contributions and, if applicable, their actualization. Secondly, this special issue intends to address the CIAMs’ theoretical and architectural legacy. The hypothesis on their interpretation suggests that these are still topical issues today. The issue comprises fourteen articles which investigate, through different applied methodologies, the years from the first steps of the CIAMs to the 1929 aftermath, analyze the post-war production and explore many case-studies, of which some are also geographically far from a Eurocentric vision as well as contemporary realities.
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Paola Viganò, Bruno Marchand and Eric Mumford
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Susanne Komossa and Martin Aarts ; Lidwine Spoormans, Daniel Navas-Carrillo, Hielkje Zijstra and Teresa Pérez-Cano ; Silvia Malcovati ; Andreina Milan ; Hamed Khosravi ; Yael Allweil and Noa Zemer ; Gérald Ledent ; Rhea Rieben ; Nicola Braghieri ; Nelson Mota ; Manlio Michieletto, Olatunde Adedayo and Victor Bay Mukunya ; Marson Korbi and Andrea Migotto ; Valentin Bourdon ; Sara Brysch
> guest authors
Paola Viganò, Bruno Marchand and Eric Mumford
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Susanne Komossa and Martin Aarts ; Lidwine Spoormans, Daniel Navas-Carrillo, Hielkje Zijstra and Teresa Pérez-Cano ; Silvia Malcovati ; Andreina Milan ; Hamed Khosravi ; Yael Allweil and Noa Zemer ; Gérald Ledent ; Rhea Rieben ; Nicola Braghieri ; Nelson Mota ; Manlio Michieletto, Olatunde Adedayo and Victor Bay Mukunya ; Marson Korbi and Andrea Migotto ; Valentin Bourdon ; Sara Brysch
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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... more
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 esegetico analizzando un altro volto della sua produzione: Villa Geber (1911-1913); in quanto la riconoscibilità identitaria tanto ricercata dal movimento romantico nazionale non trovò espressione unicamente negli edifici a carattere pubblico. Le vite dei due edifici si intrecciano anche sotto il profilo temporale e si è portati a intravedere una vicendevole influenza. «Con le sue linee semplici e originali, e la sua incantevole corte, è una perla della moderna architettura svedese». A partire dalla fascinazione esercitata su H. Ahlberg e F. R. Yerbury (1924), il libro intende esplorare l’armoniosa sintesi di culture e forme lontane fra loro nel tempo e nello spazio contenute in Villa Geber, a cui si è reso necessario aggiungere un quadro conoscitivo più ampio sulla “democratizzazione” del concetto di villa e sulla concezione abitativa al Nord.
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ENG. The main purpose of the book is to break the monotony of interest by the critics in what is Ragnar Östberg’s masterpiece, the Stockholm Town Hall. This is attempted by sketching out a new line of critical analysis focusing on another aspect of his output, Villa Geber (1911-1913); indeed, the national romantic movement’s quest for a recognisable identity was not confined to public buildings. The lives of the two
design projects interwove in time, such that one glimpses a mutual influence. «With its simple and original lines, and its extraordinarily beautifully designed courtyard is a pearl of modern Swedish architecture». Starting from the fascination that the Villa Geber held for H. Ahlberg and F. R. Yerbury (1924), the book explores the harmonious blend of cultures and forms it comprises, widely differing in space and time; to which there is necessarily appended a broader treatment of the villa concept in the North, and how it became an increasingly “democratic” style of dwelling.
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ENG. The main purpose of the book is to break the monotony of interest by the critics in what is Ragnar Östberg’s masterpiece, the Stockholm Town Hall. This is attempted by sketching out a new line of critical analysis focusing on another aspect of his output, Villa Geber (1911-1913); indeed, the national romantic movement’s quest for a recognisable identity was not confined to public buildings. The lives of the two
design projects interwove in time, such that one glimpses a mutual influence. «With its simple and original lines, and its extraordinarily beautifully designed courtyard is a pearl of modern Swedish architecture». Starting from the fascination that the Villa Geber held for H. Ahlberg and F. R. Yerbury (1924), the book explores the harmonious blend of cultures and forms it comprises, widely differing in space and time; to which there is necessarily appended a broader treatment of the villa concept in the North, and how it became an increasingly “democratic” style of dwelling.
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In recent decades the digitalisation of analogue documents has facilitated remote access to collections while helping preserve archival files. However, as James M. O’Toole pointed out, while ‘preserving the documents [is] certainly... more
In recent decades the digitalisation of analogue documents has facilitated remote access to collections while helping preserve archival files. However, as James M. O’Toole pointed out, while ‘preserving the documents [is] certainly worthwhile’ it is not ‘as important as preserving the information’.1 To critically transform unique archival records into information understandable to a wider audience (including not only research insiders) in the first place and, secondarily, use the information in order to develop historically accurate architectural narratives are two of the most significant goals of the Omega Project: a multidisciplinary and collaborative endeavour, jointly pursued by the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna and the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma.
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Although from the 1930s on Sweden led and inspired the rest of war-ravaged Europe in town planning and housing, its 1920s contributions tend to be overlooked, and the so-called Swedish Grace, with its classical echoes, appeared alien to... more
Although from the 1930s on Sweden led and inspired the rest of war-ravaged Europe in town planning and housing, its 1920s contributions tend to be overlooked, and the so-called Swedish Grace, with its classical echoes, appeared alien to avant-gardism. But mass housing was not just a product of functionalism (generally identified with the 1930 Stockholm exhibition). Even before then, Swedish municipalities and housing cooperatives had made great strides in shaping large areas and improving communal areas in courtyard housing blocks, later paving the way for successful models. In contrast to all the image of rupture circulating at the time, Swedish modern architecture followed a peaceful transition. As of the 1980s, the mainstream critics changed their tune: from being seen as an interlude between National Romanticism and Functionalism (Funkis), Swedish Grace became to be viewed as a facet of modernity.
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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... more
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 longest-pondered and biggest housing plans of the 1910s and 1920s, although its knowledge is still limited outside Nordic countries. The shape of the district stems from progressive refinements and conflations: from the first proposal (1906–1909) by the Swedish urban planner Per Olof Hallman, via crucial improvements by the architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1921) down to integrations (1922 and 1928) by the team of the Stockholm City Building Board.
This contribution sheds new light on urban design history and development of the residential estate via key findings: on the one hand, some drawings and texts from Hallman’s collection (Stockholm Stadsarkiv) as well as drawings and photos of the H.S.B. housing cooperative archive (Centrum för Näringslivshistoria), and, on the other hand, the never-discovered four drawings plates of Lewerentz (ArkDes, Stockholm) that for the first time demonstrate how his design inputs affected significantly the district layout. Organic and structured in form, Rödabergsområdet belongs as much to the collective memory and cultural heritage of Stockholm as to the cityscape.
> Link to the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2021.1871774
This contribution sheds new light on urban design history and development of the residential estate via key findings: on the one hand, some drawings and texts from Hallman’s collection (Stockholm Stadsarkiv) as well as drawings and photos of the H.S.B. housing cooperative archive (Centrum för Näringslivshistoria), and, on the other hand, the never-discovered four drawings plates of Lewerentz (ArkDes, Stockholm) that for the first time demonstrate how his design inputs affected significantly the district layout. Organic and structured in form, Rödabergsområdet belongs as much to the collective memory and cultural heritage of Stockholm as to the cityscape.
> Link to the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2021.1871774
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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... more
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 audience. In the 1930s, Samonà’s «misaligned» investigation was seeking a «strange conciliation» between the two sides of modern architecture – between Classicism and Functionalism – following a path similar to that one taken by some Swedish architects. Starting from the in-depth analysis of the examples selected by Samonà, the paper aims also to stress the importance of the foreign publications in the education of the Italian generation of young architects since the 1930s.
>> The book is the final output of the namesake call for paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia.
The volume is curated by Laura Pujia, and is available in Open Acces at http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/rileggere-samona-re-reading-samona/
ISBN: 978-88-32136-90-6
>> The book is the final output of the namesake call for paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia.
The volume is curated by Laura Pujia, and is available in Open Acces at http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/rileggere-samona-re-reading-samona/
ISBN: 978-88-32136-90-6
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sezione "mostre, convegni e mostre" Commento della mostra "HOUSING - Frankfurt Wien Stockholm" 18 settembre - 2 novembre 2018 EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Project room Archizoom, Bâtiment SG foyer Curatori... more
sezione "mostre, convegni e mostre"
Commento della mostra "HOUSING - Frankfurt Wien Stockholm"
18 settembre - 2 novembre 2018
EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Project room Archizoom, Bâtiment SG foyer
Curatori della mostra: LCC - Laboratory of Construction and Conservation
Commento della mostra "HOUSING - Frankfurt Wien Stockholm"
18 settembre - 2 novembre 2018
EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Project room Archizoom, Bâtiment SG foyer
Curatori della mostra: LCC - Laboratory of Construction and Conservation
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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... more
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 account of mass production of household goods and effective planning and housing. Suggesting that architectural experimentation with housing started before this event inevitably challenges the almost mythical allure of the exhibition. The multiple interventions by architects, planners and politicians in tackling the housing question from the Stockholm exhibition onwards are commonly thought to have been, for the first time, no longer reserved for a privileged social elite, but available to the general population. However, such a view is only partly true because already before 1930 some municipalities and building associations as well as certain newly established housing cooperatives, brought about transformations in planning provisions and erected housing blocks on an improved design for low-income groups: workers, single women and the elderly. Skimming through the pages of the functionalist manifesto Acceptera (1931), authored by the group responsible for the 1930 Stockholm exhibition, the strictures against the 1920s examples can be summarized under three main headings: employment of classical and traditional vocabulary in façades, arrangement in the form of large courtyard blocks, and insufficient typological experimentation. The goal of this paper is to legitimize the inclusion of these examples within the portrayal of a nation generally considered as inspiring for the rest of the world, especially for its contribution to housing produced in the ensuing decades. Indeed, beyond the classical allure these also express ”proto-modern qualities” (Seelow, 2016) that paved the way for the years after 1930 on.
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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... more
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 and Conservation focuses on this specific historic context. The experiences of these three cities with regard to housing are well documented from a historical viewpoint that, however, show many shortcomings with regards to the architectural analysis. The provided examples sum up simultaneously the social dynamics, the cultural milieu, as well as the adopted intentions and political programme. The exhibition aims at producing fresh knowledge of the three contributions to modern housing available to students, scholars, professors and architectural practitioners. The goal is to compare a selection of remarkable housing neighbourhoods through the different scales of the project, ranging from the relation with the city till the dwelling unit layout. The produced drawings and documents show the morphological and typological variety. Frankfurt, Vienna and Stockholm equally illustrate different ways of designing the collective space-that is the intermediary space in-between the communal and private-which is a crucial feature of the "living together".
Research Interests: Typology, Housing, Comparative Study, Vienna, Urban Policies, and 4 moreFrankfurt, Stockholm, Hof, and Siedlung
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... more
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 geographical and temporal frameworks. The focus of that event, the Existenzminimum, has often been cited as representing a fundamental contribution to the rational design of the modern dwelling. But the debates during that event went beyond the definition of this concept, because demonstrated, on the one hand, how the responsibility of architects would imply the resolution of multiple technical aspects, starting from the typological concern stretching towards the town planning aspects, and on the other hand, the calling to develop a multifaceted intellectual vision of society. Though the title selected for the present issue, namely 'Housing Builds Cities', denotes the different scales of the project, the aim is to achieve a something more. First and foremost, the objective is not strictly confined to a historical understanding of facts around the 1929 congress. Today a critically objective approach is useful to examine past contributions and, if applicable, their actualization. Secondly, this special issue intends to address the CIAMs' theoretical and architectural legacy. The hypothesis on their interpretation suggests that these are still topical issues today. The issue comprises fourteen articles which investigate, through different applied methodologies, the years from the first steps of the CIAMs to the 1929 aftermath, analyze the postwar production and explore many case-studies, of which some are also geographically far from a Euro-centric vision as well as contemporary realities.
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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... more
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 Commission Building (Nämdhuset) designed by the leading exponent of the national romanticism Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945). He published the drawing of the entire complex forming an open square, but it has never been studied by critics as a whole entity. The project responds to the Rossi’s concept of a being a «part of the city» and it shows a dialectic relationship between the genius loci of the archipelago and urban memories which were the result of his interpretation of different townscapes. Particularly, the focus is on explicit, yet subtly concealed, influences of Venice and the Swedish traditional castles. The complex is an oscillation between the locus and types assembled according to spatial sequences of collective spaces.
The book chapter presents also the translation in Italian of many Östberg's travelling notes concerning Sicily published in form of celebrative pamphlet in 1940. A selection of original sketches accompany the critical text. The chapter... more
The book chapter presents also the translation in Italian of many Östberg's travelling notes concerning Sicily published in form of celebrative pamphlet in 1940. A selection of original sketches accompany the critical text.
The chapter is the result of the contribution to the conference "Sicily through foreign eyes: travelling architects" - Università degli Studi di Catania - Struttura didattica di Siracusa, ITALY, May 18 -19, 2017
The chapter is the result of the contribution to the conference "Sicily through foreign eyes: travelling architects" - Università degli Studi di Catania - Struttura didattica di Siracusa, ITALY, May 18 -19, 2017
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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,... more
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 politicians well before. The aim is to trace the origins of their social concerns in first initiatives of land policies and mass-housing by discussing spatial experiments with housing districts on Stockholm’s fringe in the 1910s and 20s.
The attention here goes to two valuable examples: Röda Bergen (1909- 1929) and Vasastaden (1913-1924) situated in two nearby North-West hilly sites of Stockholm.
The attention here goes to two valuable examples: Röda Bergen (1909- 1929) and Vasastaden (1913-1924) situated in two nearby North-West hilly sites of Stockholm.
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“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred... more
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is”. To quote Proust’s meaningful passage (1923) is to be reminded that at the turn of the 20th century travel towards the South has still embodied a crucial step in Nordic architects’ self-development, but, they were able to go beyond the common mode of contemplation spread by the previous Grand Tour’s approach. In this perspective, the paper examines a case-study apparently remote from the internationally celebrated modern urban-scale projects, which reveals the evident influence of the Swedish architect’s 3-year journey (1896-1899) along the European peninsula. The interest focuses on Stockholm, specifically on the Town hall built by the major exponent of Swedish National Romanticism, that is Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945). The municipal building can be recognized as a concrete expression of what the French philosopher Renan (1882) describes as the goal of architecture: “the yardstick of a nation’s honour, discernment and earnestness”. The European tradition of the municipal building here becomes a catalyst for the new urban development scattered around the archipelago. The Town Hall has been a unique focus of critical interest, but this study investigates the entire project for the Eldkvarnen area, including the adjacent Committee building, which has neither been built nor examined until now. Nonetheless, the many proposals for these buildings highlight the Stockholm townscape and its unusual geographical structure. Östberg’s method still affords a valid example of theatrical design of the city, that consists spatial sequences composed of those travel memories in which collective space played such a large part.
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The paper examines how the leading exponent of the National-Romanticism Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945) contributed to conferring a proper and national character to the Stockholm’s "imago urbis" at the turn of the nineteenth century. The... more
The paper examines how the leading exponent of the National-Romanticism Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945) contributed to conferring a proper and national character to the Stockholm’s "imago urbis" at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Swedish capital, once a provincial city on the margins of Europe, became rapidly a metropolis of the North. It called for new plans shaping its appearance: architects were not interested in a global urban design, rather they focused on specific points of the city, according to the "renovatio urbis" concept. This approach was mostly due to those topographical features, that distinguished it from other European cities: being scattered on islands of the archipelago. Therefore, Stockholm has to be interpreted in its interrupted continuity, like its sibling lagoon city on islands: Venice. More than a repertoire of images, the latter was a real wonderland for Nordic architects. Nature and city join their hands and form the backdrop for Östberg’s projects, as in the two presented case-studies: the Stockholm City Hall with its unbuilt nearby part Commission Building and villa Geber. They express a character adherent to the soul of the archipelago and hark back to urban forms of the tradition. To sum up, the locus where a city is rooted has always been essential since the antiquity. As Rossi stated (1966), there is a connection between architecture and its location, considered as the resulting artefact of its space and its time, of its topographical dimensions and its form.
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Volume e mostra organizzate dal DA - Università di Bologna
http://casabellaweb.eu/wp/2013/03/05/architetture-padane/
http://casabellaweb.eu/wp/2013/03/05/architetture-padane/
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presented at 17th Annual International Conference of the AHRA - Architectural Humanities Research Association
"HOUSING AND THE CITY"
University of Nottingham (UK) – zoom conference
19th-21th November 2020
"HOUSING AND THE CITY"
University of Nottingham (UK) – zoom conference
19th-21th November 2020
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presented at the seminar "Rehab - Housing strategies"
Politecnico di Torino, Castello del Valentino (ITALY)
6th-7th December 2019
Politecnico di Torino, Castello del Valentino (ITALY)
6th-7th December 2019
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presented at the 9th AISU CONGRESS "The global city / La città globale" within the D2 panel "News from nordic countries or an epoch of action" . 11st -14th September Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Dipartimento di... more
presented at the 9th AISU CONGRESS
"The global city / La città globale"
within the D2 panel "News from nordic countries or an epoch of action"
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11st -14th September
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Dipartimento di Architettura
(ITALY)
http://www.storiaurbana.org/images/Bologna2019/programma/aisu_programma_21x21.pdf
"The global city / La città globale"
within the D2 panel "News from nordic countries or an epoch of action"
.
11st -14th September
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Dipartimento di Architettura
(ITALY)
http://www.storiaurbana.org/images/Bologna2019/programma/aisu_programma_21x21.pdf
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presented at the International Study Days
"Die Multiple Moderne / The Multiple Modernity"
31st January-2nd February
Archiv für Baukunst - Universität Innsbruck (AUSTRIA)
https://archiv-baukunst.uibk.ac.at/
"Die Multiple Moderne / The Multiple Modernity"
31st January-2nd February
Archiv für Baukunst - Universität Innsbruck (AUSTRIA)
https://archiv-baukunst.uibk.ac.at/
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presented at the Symposium on Architectural History
18th December 2018
ArkDes, Stockholm (SWEDEN)
https://arkdes.se/en/call-for-papers-symposium-on-architectural-history-at-arkdes/
18th December 2018
ArkDes, Stockholm (SWEDEN)
https://arkdes.se/en/call-for-papers-symposium-on-architectural-history-at-arkdes/
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presented at the "Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable?", University of Derby, UK, June 22-23, 2017
http://architecturemps.com/derbyconference/
http://architecturemps.com/derbyconference/
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presented at: "Sicily through foreign eyes: travelling architetti / La Sicilia nello sguardo degli altri: architetti in viaggio" , Università degli Studi di Catania - Struttura didattica di Siracusa, ITALY, May 18 -19, 2017... more
presented at: "Sicily through foreign eyes: travelling architetti / La Sicilia nello sguardo degli altri: architetti in viaggio" , Università degli Studi di Catania - Struttura didattica di Siracusa, ITALY, May 18 -19, 2017
http://www.agenda.unict.it/12856-la-sicilia-nello-sguardo-degli-altri-architetti-in-viaggio.htm
http://www.agenda.unict.it/12856-la-sicilia-nello-sguardo-degli-altri-architetti-in-viaggio.htm
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presented at the Seminar "Beyond Rome. Architects' travel between the Nordic Countries and the Mediterranean" Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C.M. Lerici" (Stockholm) 20th-21th May 2016... more
presented at the Seminar "Beyond Rome. Architects' travel between the Nordic Countries and the Mediterranean"
Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C.M. Lerici" (Stockholm)
20th-21th May 2016
http://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/recent-opportunities/2016/05/20/default-calendar/beyond-rome-architects'-travels-between-the-nordic-countries-and-the-mediterranean
Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C.M. Lerici" (Stockholm)
20th-21th May 2016
http://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/recent-opportunities/2016/05/20/default-calendar/beyond-rome-architects'-travels-between-the-nordic-countries-and-the-mediterranean
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presented at the Congreso internacional “La cultura y la ciudad. Imagen y representaciones de lo urbano, ciudades históricas y eventos culturales" ETSAG. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Granada (Spain),... more
presented at the Congreso internacional “La cultura y la ciudad. Imagen y representaciones de lo urbano, ciudades históricas y eventos culturales"
ETSAG. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Granada (Spain), 15th-17th April 2015
https://laculturaylaciudad.wordpress.com/temas/
ETSAG. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Granada (Spain), 15th-17th April 2015
https://laculturaylaciudad.wordpress.com/temas/
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presented at the "Third international meeting of EAHN. European architectural history network - Round table for Phd students "
Politecnico di Torino, Castello del Valentino
19th - 23th June 2014
http://www.eahn.org/conference-2/
Politecnico di Torino, Castello del Valentino
19th - 23th June 2014
http://www.eahn.org/conference-2/
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presented at the International Seminar "Italy and the Nordic architect"
Accademia di San Luca, Rome (Italy)
14th-15th November 2013
http://www.accademiasanluca.eu/it/news/id/1619/italy-and-the-nordic-architects
Accademia di San Luca, Rome (Italy)
14th-15th November 2013
http://www.accademiasanluca.eu/it/news/id/1619/italy-and-the-nordic-architects
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presented at the III Symposium of SAHN. The historiography of Swedish architecture
Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 11th- 12th October 2013
http://sahnetwork.wordpress.com/chiara-monterumisi/
Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), 11th- 12th October 2013
http://sahnetwork.wordpress.com/chiara-monterumisi/
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presented at the International seminar “Architects' travels. Swedish-Italian connections in the tradition of the Grand Tour (1830-1950)”, Italienska Kulturinstitutet i Stockholm "C.M. Lerici" (Sweden)... more
presented at the International seminar “Architects' travels. Swedish-Italian connections in the tradition of the Grand Tour (1830-1950)”, Italienska Kulturinstitutet i Stockholm "C.M. Lerici" (Sweden)
http://www.univpm.it/Entra/Engine/RAServeFile.php/f/congressi_seminari/2012/Travels_stockholm_11102012.pdf
http://www.univpm.it/Entra/Engine/RAServeFile.php/f/congressi_seminari/2012/Travels_stockholm_11102012.pdf
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"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... more
"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 functionalism’ which was co-authored by the group – Erik Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson Eskil Sundahl and Uno Åhrén – responsible for what is still an important event in Nordic countries. In Nordic circles accepetera has had ‘a major impact over time in relation to the short-lived Stockholm exhibition, ‘ (Seelow 2018) but the Swedish manifesto lacks all textual or historical analysis until recently, unlike many manifestos of the time which were thoroughly explored and also translated. As stressed in the title, Seelow examines both the ‘book‘ (Das Buch) in all its facets, and the ‘ history‘ (seine Geschichte) or historical background from which the manifesto sprang. Eighty-seven years after accepetera, Seelow’s 2018 contribution provides the first thorough contextualisation of the text within the Swedish architectural, theoretical and political panorama, though he also eschews any uniquely Swedish-oriented perspective. The author says quite plainly that the main reason for his contribution was to get the text translated in its entirety, made at last available to a German readership. His intention of disseminating the manifesto outside Swedish borders is not a lone voice among recent studies - Lucy Creagh was a forerunner in curating the full English reprint translation in 2008. Nevertheless, Seelow’s is a pivotal contribution in that German culture was a primary reference point for Sweden. The choice of language for the book and the translation is hardly coincidental.
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Book review on the last contribution of Nicholas Adams, dealing with Gordon Bunshaft. The review is comprised in the bilingual thematic issue: "ARTSCHITECTURE. The arts as a solicitation of architectural thought" edited by L. Amistadi... more
Book review on the last contribution of Nicholas Adams, dealing with Gordon Bunshaft.
The review is comprised in the bilingual thematic issue:
"ARTSCHITECTURE. The arts as a solicitation of architectural thought"
edited by L. Amistadi and E. Prandi
The review is comprised in the bilingual thematic issue:
"ARTSCHITECTURE. The arts as a solicitation of architectural thought"
edited by L. Amistadi and E. Prandi
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CALL FOR PAPER for a special issue of the journal "Urban Planning”, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2019 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/pages/view/nextissues#housing Editors : Luca Ortelli, Chiara Monterumisi,... more
CALL FOR PAPER for a special issue of the journal "Urban Planning”, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2019
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/pages/view/nextissues#housing
Editors : Luca Ortelli, Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto
(École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/pages/view/nextissues#housing
Editors : Luca Ortelli, Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto
(École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland)