Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design

Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
Statens centrum för arkitektur och design

Arkitektur- och designcentrum (ArkDes)
Location of ArkDes in Stockholm
Former name Museum of Architecture (Arkitekturmuseet)
Established 1962 (1962)
Location Stockholm Sweden
Coordinates 59°19′33″N 18°05′06″E / 59.32583°N 18.08500°E / 59.32583; 18.08500Coordinates: 59°19′33″N 18°05′06″E / 59.32583°N 18.08500°E / 59.32583; 18.08500
Type Architectural museum
Collection size
  • c. 3,000,000 drawings and documents
  • 600,000 photos
  • 2,000 models

[1]

Founder Sveriges Arkitekter, SA (Architects of Sweden)
Director Kerstin Brunnberg
Owner Government of Sweden
Public transit access Bus to Arkitektur-/Moderna museet
Website www.arkdes.se

The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (Swedish: Arkitektur- och designcentrum, ArkDes, previously known as the Museum of Architecture, Arkitekturmuseet) is a Swedish National Museum for architecture and design. It is located on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden, in the same complex as the modern art museum Moderna Museet. The museum exhibits architecture, urban planning and design. It is an administrative authority under the Ministry of Culture.

History

The Museum of Architecture was founded in 1962, at the initiative of the National Association of Swedish Architects (Sveriges Arkitekters Riksförbund) as a private foundation. It became nationalized in 1978, when it was housed in buildings previously occupied by the Nautical Chart Department on Skeppsholmen. The new premises were inaugurated in February 1998.[1]

On 28 February 2013, the government issued new instructions for the museum and, on 1 May, changed its name to the Statens centrum för arkitektur och design (The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design). Since the mid-1990s, the museum has been administered by the Ministry of Culture.[1]

Buildings

The ArtDes is housed in two buildings, the Navy's old drill hall, the Exercishuset,[2] and a new building designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo and built in 1994–97, at the same time as the Moderna Museet.[3] The exhibitions are in the old house and the new building, in a functionalistic style,[3] contains offices, a library, an archive and workshops. The Moneo building was awarded the Kasper Salin Prize in 1998.[4]

Function and exhibitions

Workshop at "Meet Wikipedia" in the ArkDes, 2014

The Centre has a permanent exhibition and several temporary thematic exhibitions.[5] The permanent exhibition shows Swedish architecture through the ages in models, photos and historical objects.[6]

Two adjacent rooms are dedicated to thematic exhibitions where original drawings, designs and artifacts are displayed. In the archives of the ArkDes are drawings, models and photos of the works of about 500 architects. The museum's library contains journals from the 1930s and onwards, as well as over 24,000 books.[7]

The Centre for Architecture and Design manages the Einar Mattsson's Foundation for Building and Property Research.[8]

In 2013, the ArtDes hosted the exhibition "The fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the sidewalk to the catwalk".[9]

The Centre has cooperated with the Wikimedia Foundation on a number of occasions. In 2013 and 2014, Wikimedia Sweden held its annual meeting there, and in 2014, the ArkDes hosted the "Meet Wikipedia" event.[10]

Directors

Buildings

Exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Statens centrum för arkitektur och design". www.regeringen.se (in Swedish). Government of Sweden. pp. 6–17. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "MODERNA MUSEET, ARKITEKTURMUSEET (EXERCISHUSET) (akt.)". www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se. Swedish National Heritage Board. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 Moneo, Rafael; Mårtelius, Johan; Jewson, William; Lidman, Åke E:son (1998). Modern Museum and Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm (in Swedish). Stockholm: Arkitektur. ISBN 91-87214-76-8.
  4. ↑ Schiratzki, Malin. "Kasper Salinpriset till Arkitekturmuseum" (PDF). www.sfv.se. National Property Board of Sweden. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Utställningar". www.arkdes.se. ArkDes. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Rörby, Martin (2004). Arkitektur i Sverige: funktion, konstruktion och estetik genom tiderna. Stockholm: Arkitekturmuseet. ISBN 9185460702.
  7. ↑ "Arkitekturmuseets bibliotek". www.archive-se.com. HISS. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  8. ↑ Fröjd, Mattias (20 November 2012). "Einar Mattsson-stipendiater är utsedda". www.fastighetsnytt.se (in Swedish). Fastighetsnytt. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  9. ↑ Stockholm TT Spektra (2 November 2011). "Arkitekturmuseum visar Gaultier". www.svd.se. Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  10. ↑ "Träffa Wikipedia". www.arkdes.se. ArkDes. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Fristorp, Mimmi (19 December 2008). "Lena Rahoult ny chef för Arkitekturmuseet". www.dn.se. Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  12. ↑ Andersson, Patrik (25 April 2012). "Bitte Nygren". www.gp.se. Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 4 June 2015.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.