14,495 Flats: A Metabolist's Guide to New Stockholm / 14.495 lägenheter : en bok om bostadsbristens bostäder

Size: 300 x 240 x 25 mm
Pages: 396
Language: Swedish and English
Publication date: 20 aug 2021
Publisher: Secretary
Place of publication: Stockholm
Authors: Helen Runting, Karin Matz, Rutger Sjögrim
Graphic design: Tristan Main

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.

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? Hur kan vi indentifiera mönster, återkommande motiv, framväxande normer, kvantitativa gränsvärden och stora avvikelser i de data som går att få fram ur en fullständig uppsättning arkitektritningar? 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. Denna arkitektur har ett unikt temperament; när alla de enskilda delarna betraktas som en helhet - som ett aggregat - framstår den som introvert, expansiv och tät.