Date
27/08/2026
Time
9:30 - 12:30
Location
KTH Arkitektur Osquarsbacke, 5 Stockholm Ground floor, room A124
Seminar and Exiibition
An international seminar and a pop-up exhibition explore almost a century of Swedish architecture, interiors, and industrial design through the pages of Domus magazine.
The Project
Developed by a group of 10 PhD candidates, the project investigates how Sweden has been represented, interpreted, and circulated internationally from 1928 to the present. Working systematically through the full run of the magazine, the researchers identified every page in which Sweden appears, assembling a dataset of over 800 mentions, selecting over 160 as analytically significant, and mapping 40 architecture projects in depth. From this material, they have constructed a series of interpretative cartographies that trace recurring figures, concepts, themes, and events across 99 years of architectural discourse.
The workshop
The research workshop is hosted by the library of the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm (17-28 August), a building designed by Gio Ponti, the magazine's long-standing director, while the related pop-up exhibition will be on show during the International Seminar on the 27th of August (9:30 – 12:30) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH-Arkitektur).
Speakers
Helena Mattsson and Katja Grillner - KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Björn Ehrlemark, Tidskriften Arkitektur
Coordinators
Gaia Caramellino, Gennaro Postiglione, Valeria Casali - Politecnico di Milano, DAStU; Nicole De Togni - Politecnico di Torino; Michela Barone Lumaga - KTH Royal Institute of Technology