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Center and periphery: Five houses by Mikael Bergquist

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The book collects five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great care for detail and choice of materials characterize these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding nature, the experience of which is enhanced by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside. The houses are documented with photographs as well as with plans and sections. In his supplementary essay, Bergquist writes about the special position of working as an architect on the periphery of Europe. He draws a picture of Swedish architecture that is marked by what he calls "fruitful misunderstandings" of current movements, and in which poverty of the rural population has been a major factor in the evolution of the design and construction of dwellings.

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Accidentism : Josef Frank

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The designs, buildings and writings of Josef Frank go back to the dawn of the 20th century and the beginning of the "Scandinavian style." An early advocate of classical modernism, Frank ended up a harsh critic of its dogmatism. "Accidentism: Josef Frank" is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the late work of this important Austrian architect, designer and theoretician. These later works include unrealized and (until now) unpublished building projects as well as his timeless furniture and textile designs.

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Josef Frank: Spaces. Case studies of six single-family houses

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Architects Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen 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— the Villas Claëson 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.

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Josef Frank: Accidentism. 2nd edition

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Josef Frank is seen as an important visionary at the early stages of the Moderne movement, as well as an outspoken critic of its dogmatism. He not only left his mark on Viennese culture at the beginning of the previous century, but also on Swedish Modernism. The emphasis of this bibliophilic book is on Frank`s later work – it introduces his late, unbuilt building projects, as well as his timeless furniture and fabric designs.