Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design

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Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
Statens centrum för arkitektur och design
File:Arkitektur- och Designcentrum 2014.jpg
Arkitektur- och designcentrum (ArkDes)
Former name Museum of Architecture (Arkitekturmuseet)
Established 1962 (1962)
Location Stockholm Sweden
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Type Architectural museum
Collection size
  • c. 3,000,000 drawings and documents
  • 600,000 photos
  • 2,000 models
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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, ArkiDes, 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

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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

  • Kerstin Brunnberg, interim director July 2014–July 2015[1]
  • Lena Rahoult, 2009–July 2014[11]
  • Bitte Nygren, 1999–2008[12]
  • Jöran Lindvall, 1985–99
  • --
  • Bengt O.H. Johansson, 1966–77

Gallery

Buildings

  • Exercishallen September 2013..jpg

    Exhibits building

  • Arkitekturmuseet 2009a.jpg

    Exhibits building

  • Arkitekturmuseet 2009b.jpg

    Administrations building

  • Arkitekturmuseet 2009c.jpg

    Administrations building

Exhibitions

  • Arkitekturmuseet utställning 2014c.jpg

    The permanent exhibits hall

  • Gamla Katarinahissen modell.jpg

    The old Katarina Elevator, model

  • Arkitektur- och Designcentrum 2014a.jpg

    The temporary exhibition "Blockholm", based on the game Minecraft, 2014

  • J P G på ArtDes 2013 8.jpg

    The temporary exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk", 2013

References

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Further reading

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External links

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