This book explores five holiday homes designed by Stockholm architect Mikael Bergquist over two decades in the Swedish landscape. Rooted in Nordic wooden building traditions, the homes showcase Bergquist's attention to detail and material selection. They emphasize a strong connection to nature, enhanced by thoughtful spatial design. The book includes new photographs, plans, and an essay reflecting on the unique challenges of practicing architecture in Europe's periphery.
Als Vordenker und Kritiker der Moderne prägte Josef Frank nicht nur die Wiener
Kultur der zwanziger Jahre. Auch in Schweden, wo seine Entwürfe bis heute von
der Firma Svenskt Tenn produziert werden, nahm er entscheidend Einfluss auf
den modernen 'skandinavischen Stil'. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Buches liegt auf
dem Spätwerk Franks: vorgestellt werden seine späten, nicht realisierten
Bauprojekte sowie seine zeitlosen Möbel und Stoffentwürfe.
A documentation of Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern
Sweden, designed by Austrian-born architect Josef Frank in 1926-27. Lavishly
illustrated in colour throughout, highlights the building's outstanding
qualities and puts it in context with Frank's other work in architecture.
Josef Frank (1885–1967) ranks among Europe’s most significant architects of the twentieth century, and his designs for furniture and textiles have made him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Though there have been many studies of Frank’s architecture previously, Josef Frank—Spaces is the first comprehensive book to look specifically at Frank’s single-family houses. Architects Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michelsen explore the evolution of Frank’s designs for single-family homes over the years, and they investigate the influences that shaped his work, such as Adolf Loos’s “spatial plan” concept, Le Corbusier’s ideas, and Hermann Muthesius’s groundbreaking book The English House. The authors also look at Frank’s architectural concepts of movement and his use of stairs in residential buildings. The book also includes an in-depth examination of six of Frank’s houses, including both built projects—Villas Claeson and Wehtje in Falsterbo, Sweden, and Villa Beer in Vienna—and unrealized ones—House for Vienna XIII, House MS in Los Angeles, and Fantasy House 9 (Accidental House). This section includes images and plans of each of the houses and a close analysis of their specific characteristics. A complete catalog of Frank’s single-family houses rounds out the book. Featuring new material and many previously unpublished images and plans, Josef Frank—Spaces will be the authoritative reference to this renowned architect’s contributions to the design of residential dwellings.
