Center and Periphery Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

Center and Periphery Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

Mikael Bergquist • Park Books

ISBN-10: 3038603775 · ISBN-13: 978‑3038603771 · 2025

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Dimensions: 8.3 × 6.7 × 0.4 in

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A study of Swedish vacation homes designed by Mikael Bergquist. 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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