14 495 Lägenheter / 14,495 Flats

Exceptional study: The book centers around an archive of plans from 156 projects in the Stockholm region, presenting over 600 original planning permit drawings for 337 building.


From the publisher:
What (the hell) is contemporary Swedish residential architecture doing, amidst the foggy conditions of a late-capitalist, twenty-first century Welfare State, with a view to its construction booms and housing shortages? What are the demands that this architecture answers to, and what problems of its own might it be wrestling with? What forms of life does it dream of accommodating and which does it normalize, naturalize, or exclude? "14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm" examines the multi-unit housing approved at the height of a recent building boom (2017) in the midst of an ongoing housing shortage in the 26 municipalities that make up the Stockholm region. The book includes an archive of plans from 156 projects in the Stockholm region, presenting over 600 original planning permit drawings for 337 buildings. It is a must for all architects, planners, developers, and other actors working within the housing sector, as well as students and scholars of residential architecture.

About the authors:
KARIN MATZ
Karin is an architect (Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Queensland, and KTH (MSc. Arch)). She has designed a series of widely published smaller projects (Karin Matz Arkitekt), and was Project Architect for the Haganova development in Hagastaden (Vera Arkitekter). Karin is a lecturer at the School of Architecture at KTH in Stockholm.
 
RUTGER SJÖGRIM
Rutger is an architect (MSc. Arch, KTH). His work focuses on early-stage concept development in relation to architectural competitions, urban development projects, commercial events, exhibitions, film/media, and the production of architectural imagery and visualizations. Rutger is a lecturer at the School of Architecture at KTH in Stockholm
 
DR. HELEN RUNTING
Helen is an urban planner (B.UPD, University of Melbourne), urban designer (PG. Dip.UD, University of Melbourne; MSc.UPD, KTH), and architectural theorist (PhD, KTH). She has worked with masterplanning projects in Australia, Vietnam, Finland and Sweden. Her research interests include policymaking, real estate, and aesthetics, and she has published widely in a range of international journals and anthologies.
 

--- Swedish:
Vad gör den samtida svenska bostadsarkitekturen i den senkapitalistiska välfärdsstatens grumliga vatten? Vilka behov svarar den mot och vilka egna problem kan den tänkas brottas med? Vilka livsformer drömmer den om att inhysa och vilka livsformer normaliserar den? 14 495 lägenheter : En bok om bostadsbristens bostäder handlar om de flerbostadshus som fick bygglov 2017 (under kulmen av den senaste byggboomen, mitt under en pågående bostadsbrist) i de 26 kommuner som utgör Region Stockholm. Boken med sitt arkiv bestående av över 600 bygglovsplanritningar för 337 byggnader är ett måste för alla  aktörer i bostadssektorn: arkitekter, planerare, utvecklare, studenter, forskare mm.