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- Bodin, Anders, 1951-
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Helgo Zettervalls arkitektur
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Helgo Zettervall (1831–1907) was one of Sweden’s principal architects and design talents. He was professionally active for 40 years, from the late 1850s to the mid-1890s – a period of intensive building activity in Sweden. For the first twenty years of his career, he had his practice in Lund, and in the subsequent twenty years he lived in Stockholm as head of Sweden’s state authority for public buildings. Zettervall was very productive. His portfolio contains 281 projects, of which 160 were executed, ranging from large cathedral restorations with thousands of detailed drawings and large public buildings to porch extensions and smaller residences.This dissertation highlights Zettervall’s works by putting them in a context and by analysing their qualitative aspects. Carried out as a historiographical case study, the framework for the dissertation is the architectural monograph. The individual architectural projects are the core of the presentation, assembling and making archive material readily accessible, and the method is leaning towards that of an oeuvre complète raisonné. The method includes three distinct approaches: a factual accounting of documents and drawings, a context-setting frame story that provides the conditions, and an architectural analysis.Zettervall belonged to the first generation of architects who could receive a well-planned and broad training in Sweden. All of this training took place against a backdrop of what a specific assignment demanded in terms of responsiveness and understanding. Zettervall developed a special talent for utilizing new construction methods and materials. Each assignment was a challenge to investigate new design principles and new spatial ideas. The investigation shows that every project was unique for Zettervall, and that his various solutions depended on the specific situation, regarding site and program. Zettervall was a distinct pragmatic. Every assignment had its unique conditions, and thus had a unique solution.
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- Günther, Stefan, 1964-
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Klassicismens interiörer : Inredningskonst och arkitekturprofiler från Vitruvius till Tessin
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the design and development of the classical interior detail and its theoretical background from its Italian origins through its development into a shared European style around 1700. It mainly presents a close study of some forty chosen interiors in Italy, France and Sweden dating from antiquity to the close of the seventeenth century. A point of departure is the descriptions of the ancient architectural theoretician Vitruvius. The role of Vitruvian theory in the history of interior detail has until now received relatively little attention. By comparing the interiors and their components with local tradition as well as contemporaneous architectural theory and Vitruvius’s rules the actual impact of Vitruvius on Classical interior detailing is investigated. The thesis is divided into ten chapters. Chapter one develops a model, which can be used to describe the relationship between interior detail and the Classical room as a whole. Chapter two deals with the ancient origins of architectural profiles. Chapter three systematises the ancient proportional system that came to be used for Classical interiors. Chapter four outlines the ancient vis-à-vis the Medieval frame profile. Chapters five to nine describe the development of interior detail from 1400 to 1700 as seen in a selection of the most renowned interiors and buildings in European interior architecture. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the principles and ideals behind the proportion and design of the rooms and their parts for the period in question. Chapter ten examines the treatment of mouldings in European architectural theory from 1450 to 1990. Interior detail is described using two variables, one of which is its factual form and the other is the way it has been proportioned in relation to the structure of the room. The design of architectural detail and its ancient heredity plays an important role to form continuity in the tradition of Classical architecture. This thesis shows that small variations in the shape of architecture profiles causes new possibilities for interplay between the whole of the building and the form of the room, walls and details. This possibility has to a great extent been used to adapt Classical detail to the artistic language of different times and spirits.
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