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Gert Wingårdh
Gert Wingårdh (*1951) is Sweden’s leading architect. His clever and imaginative spatial creations are remarkable in economic as well as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of the future users. This monograph analyzes the principal aspects of his work in seminal essays by renowned architecture critics and uses text and images to document all the important buildings of his thirty-year career. Editor Mikael Nanfeldt is curator of the Röhss Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Göteborg, the opening venue for a large exhibition of Wingårdh’s work that then moves on to the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm before going on to tour int...
Gert Wingårdh, Architect
The architectural scene in Sweden is less prominent internationally than that of Austria or Switzerland and yet there are highly interesting discoveries to be made. Gert Wingardh is one such discovery. His architecture is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright with its cheerful spaciousness, and the aesthetically pleasing details would be worthy of Carlo Scarpa. His buildings do not stubbornly adhere to one style but are a response to the task in hand and the surrounding environmental conditions. Sweden's rich tradition of building with wood and a strong ecological awareness are combined with high tech expertise. With successful projects such as the school building in Nodinge, the control tower at Stockholm's Arlanda airport, the science centre in Gothenburg, Ericsson's office in London, and the chancellery at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin, Wingardh has become Sweden's most prominent architect, heading his own architectural firm with offices in Gothenburg and Stockholm since 1977.
Dwell
At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.
Fresh! The Irresistible Appeal of Wingårdh's Architecture
Since their breakthrough in the mid 1980s Wingårdhs Architects have been Sweden's leading architects. They have proved constant success in innovation and evolution, while maintaining a deeply rooted pragmatic and humanistic Nordic tradition in which embracing the resources is key. 'Our buildings are based on responsiveness. It's a different approach, a unique approach, ' says Gert Wingårdh. 'They deal with Lean Architecture, a style of architecture which avoids excesses and does as it should, contributing to and developing the foundation of societies, ' writes the German architecture critic Dirk Meyhöfer in one of the book's essays.
Organizational Olympians
The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations. Attitudes and temperaments, as well as professional ethos, are narrated and mythologized to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.
Crucial Words
The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Ma...
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
Throughout his career, Gert Wingardh has always aimed to propose designs giving both historical and contemporary sensations, guided by a sociological methodology which puts people's usage of physical environment as a key of planning. During these years he has designed and produced a variety of projects, starting with interiors and private homes and following with a number of laboratory complexes, offices, and public buildings.
The Art Directors Annual 88
View the year's most innovative works in visual communication, in stunning, full color. The winners of the Art Directors Club Annual Awards are showcased here.
100
This volume features 100 homes of different architects.
Time-based Architecture
This study is part of the project 'Context and Modernity' at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology.
