Pro dialogue: Architecture & Cities

Kjellander Sjöberg participates in the year’s Futureperfect festival on Grinda.

Pro Dialogues is a series of short presentations by speakers with expertise in their respective areas. An exchange of experiences, talks about the challenges and potentials that exist today and in the future. The seminar welcomes all professionals and individuals who are interested in sustainability in architecture and planning.

Futureperfect, 15th – 17th of August on Grinda.

Pro Dialogues

The role of architecture and cities in making a sustainable society could not be more central. The built environment is not only the single most intensive concentration of materials that society manipulates – including carbon, and energy, minerals, water, waste, and biomass – but it sets the patterns by which people live the their daily lives.

New ways of living, and new systems for the management of materials, natural resources and systems, and business models, are all emerging now in architecture and city design. The speakers will lead us through their work in these areas, and discuss the challenges and opportunities along the road ahead. Some of these include the rebuilding of Kiruna City Centre, a food-focussed block in Årstafältet, using bees to reinforce urban ecosystem resilience, and more.

Speakers for the Architecture and Cities Pro Dialogue include:
Karolina Lisslö, Bee Urban
Krister Lindstedt, White Arkitekter
Anna Edblom, White Arkitekter
Anna Denell, Vasakronan
Alexander Ståhle, Spacescape
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg

Light Houses – Young Nordic Architecture

Kjellander Sjöberg exhibits at the Museum of Finnish Architecture

This year’s summer exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture features young Nordic architects. The exhibition is a comprehensive presentation of contemporary Nordic architecture. Through the work of 32 young architects and architectural firms the exhibition shows that contemporary Nordic architecture has an exemplary way to approach contemporary global challenges. The Nordic architecture’s traditional characteristics – straightforward design and sober use of materials, taking into account natural light, natural environment and context – represents in itself the principles of responsible and sustainable architecture.

During the summer of 2013, the exhibition, which premiered at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2012, will be shown in Helsinki with a broader content.

The exhibition will be shown from 5th of June until 22nd of September 2013 at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki.

Back to the Future, Liljevalchs, Home Sweet Home

“Living involves so much more than houses. It’s about lifestyle,” says Stefan Sjöberg

In conjunction with the exhibition Home Sweet Home, Stefan Sjöberg, Graham Hill, Karin Bradley and Clara Lindstrom were interviewed by the exhibition’s producer Annica Kvint. In the article, Back to the Future, Stefan Sjöberg tells us about future ways of life and how concepts and lifestyle are complemented with sustainability aspects and functionality.

Home Sweet Home is an artistic interpretation of Swedish and international design icons and their style ideals. With an unpretentious but elegant mix of high and low, cheap and expensive, the exhibition advocates inspiration instead of consumption, with the aim of a sustainable future.

Home Sweet Home, no. 494, pp. 102-106

Nordic Architects – Ebbs & Flows

David Sokol, Arvinius+ Orfeus Publishing, 2013

Ebbs & Flows, the second volume of Nordic Architects, features the work of 60 leading offices in the Nordic architectural scene. Showcasing their latest works, including unbuilt competition entries, this book gives an incomparable view of the present and future of the new wave in Nordic architecture. Through interviews with all the architects, author David Sokol explores the questions and ideas most relevant to Nordic architecture today. The book features Kjellander + Sjöberg’s projects Annedalsterrassen, Tornhuset, Västra Johannelund and Snäckan.

David Sokol, Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, September 2013, pp 230-239

Dream houses at von Echstedtska Gården

KS exhibiting at Värmlands Museum

In the summer exhibition “Glasklara minnen i drömhus och landskap” (Crystal-clear memories in dream homes and landscapes) at the von Echstedtska Gården in Värmland, KS creates a temporary installation in collaboration with I Ingalena Klenell.

“A new pavilion designed for future memories that reflect themselves in the old dam from the 1700s. A house to dream in, a little house, almost an outdoor space, with flexible and light nuances and shifts between outside and inside, to be made of environmentally friendly and sustainable materials.”

The exhibition opens on Sunday, 26th May 2013 at 1 pm by the chairman of the Värmlands Museum, Philip Johnsson.

The exhibition is open 26th May – 25th August 2013, Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 6 pm.

What, where and for whom do we build?

KS berättar om kvaliteter i planering och bostadsbyggande!

Ola Kjellander och Stefan Sjöberg är inbjudna att tala och delta i diskussion om stadsbyggnad och bostäder på Färgfabriken den 17:e april.

Under 2012 blev vi närmare hundra personer fler i Storstockholm – varje dag. Var ska våra nya grannar bo? Det byggs nya enklaver och det kompletteras i befintliga stadsstrukturer. Hur förvaltas det platsspecifika i förverkligandet av Promenadstaden? Vilka framsteg har gjorts inom bostadsbyggandet det senaste decenniet? Vad bygger vi nu? Hur uppnås en långsiktig hållbarhet i såväl arkitektur som i byggnadernas utformning? Vem bygger vi för? Förändrade hushållssammansättningar och ett förhållandevis homogent bostadsbestånd ger utmaningar för nybyggandet. Vi har ett gyllene tillfälle att komplettera med bostadstyper som saknas. Hur förvaltas den möjligheten? Vad behöver vi för bostäder?

Välkommen till en eftermiddag om framtidens bostadsbyggande! Seminariet anordnas av samfundet St Erik.

KS lecture on urban design

Stadsbyggnadskontoret i Stockholm

KS var i veckan inbjudna av Stadsbyggnadskontoret i Stockholm för att diskutera begreppet stad på temat:

Vad är en stad? Vad skapar en stad?

Det blev ett öppet samtal kring stadsstruktur och “byar i staden” – stadsdelars inbördes relation och förhållande till staden i stort.

Exemplet som KS presenterade var det urbana, historiska London, vars framväxt och kraftiga expansion 1700-1830 lade fast stadens nuvarande karaktär och struktur. London visar på en utveckling baserad på spekulationsekonomi, utveckling på privat mark med arrende, marknadsstyrd planering och bostadsbyggande. Parallellt finns ett tydligt fokus på skala, detaljering och väl avvägda stadsrum. Gränsen mellan det privata och offentliga är tydlig.

Föreläsningens fokus låg på stadsrum, stadskvalitéer och hur kända typologier kan bygga upp en stadsstruktur med innehållsmässig flexibilitet.

Efterföljande diskussion blev intressant och givande, den handlade om hur en stadsstruktur (urban fabric) kan etableras och om behovet av gemensamma planeringsprinciper och spelregler. Bebyggelse som speglar en “common ground” – en gemensam grundsyn och kultur.

KS riktar ett stort tack till arrangören, Stadsbyggnadskontoret, och till alla inblandade!

Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

KS selected for the Architecture Biennale in Venice

Kjellander Sjöberg is invited to participate at the exhibition “Lighthouses – The Nordic Common Ground” in the Nordic pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2012.

10 architecture practices from Sweden, Norway and Finland were selected to design respective installations for the Sverre Fehn’s uplifting exhibition pavilion built in 1962. The curator for the Nordic contribution is Peter MacKeith.

David Chipperfield is the main curator of this year’s Biennale. The general topic is Common Ground. “The emphasis of the 2012 Biennale is on what we have in common. Above all, the ambition of Common Ground is to reassert the existence of an architectural culture, made up not just of singular talents but a rich continuity of diverse ideas united in a common history, common ambitions, common predicaments and ideals”

The exhibition is open 29th August – 25th November 2012.