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- Eriksson, Daniel, et al.
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Common genetic variation in the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) locus is associated with autoimmune Addison’s disease in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 2045-2322. ; 8:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Autoimmune Addison's disease (AAD) is the predominating cause of primary adrenal failure. Despite its high heritability, the rarity of disease has long made candidate-gene studies the only feasible methodology for genetic studies. Here we conducted a comprehensive reinvestigation of suggested AAD risk loci and more than 1800 candidate genes with associated regulatory elements in 479 patients with AAD and 2394 controls. Our analysis enabled us to replicate many risk variants, but several other previously suggested risk variants failed confirmation. By exploring the full set of 1800 candidate genes, we further identified common variation in the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) as a novel risk locus associated to sporadic AAD in our study. Our findings not only confirm that multiple loci are associated with disease risk, but also show to what extent the multiple risk loci jointly associate to AAD. In total, risk loci discovered to date only explain about 7% of variance in liability to AAD in our study population.
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- Eriksson, D, et al.
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Extended exome sequencing identifies BACH2 as a novel major risk locus for Addison's disease
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Internal Medicine. - : Wiley. - 0954-6820 .- 1365-2796. ; 286:6, s. 595-608
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Autoimmune disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Addison's disease, the adrenal glands are targeted by destructive autoimmunity. Despite being the most common cause of primary adrenal failure, little is known about its aetiology.METHODS: To understand the genetic background of Addison's disease, we utilized the extensively characterized patients of the Swedish Addison Registry. We developed an extended exome capture array comprising a selected set of 1853 genes and their potential regulatory elements, for the purpose of sequencing 479 patients with Addison's disease and 1394 controls.RESULTS: We identified BACH2 (rs62408233-A, OR = 2.01 (1.71-2.37), P = 1.66 × 10(-15) , MAF 0.46/0.29 in cases/controls) as a novel gene associated with Addison's disease development. We also confirmed the previously known associations with the HLA complex.CONCLUSION: Whilst BACH2 has been previously reported to associate with organ-specific autoimmune diseases co-inherited with Addison's disease, we have identified BACH2 as a major risk locus in Addison's disease, independent of concomitant autoimmune diseases. Our results may enable future research towards preventive disease treatment.
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- Gyllén, Jenny, 1968, et al.
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Important sources of information to support self-management for families of children with pediatric cataracts – based on PECARE Sweden/Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Ophthalmic Practice. - : Mark Allen Group. - 2044-5504 .- 2052-2851. ; 6:1, s. 23-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ABSTRACT Purpose The aim of this study was to improve treatment concordance by investigating important sources of information on self-management for families of children with pediatric cataracts, from the perspective of parents and ophthalmologists. Methods This mixed-method study involved a deductive approach using a questionnaire administered to 69 families of children operated on and registered with the Swedish Pediatric Cataract Register (PECARE Sweden) in southern Sweden, as well as 30 pediatric ophthalmologists who monitored the patients upon their return to the local health care facility. An inductive approach was applied using analysis of open-ended questions about self-management. Both groups were asked about their perception of the value of strategies for providing information, and the timing of this. Results The response rate was 68% for families and 93% for ophthalmologists. Both groups agreed that ophthalmology visits were the most important source of information, followed by information in writing and online. Parents of children diagnosed before the age of 3 months were more likely to prefer written information. Content analysis revealed that a person-centred care is important. Conclusion Parents, particularly of the youngest children, requested more and directed information. By promoting self-management, a person-centred care may play a decisive role in treatment outcome.
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KTHA #1
- 2010
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Innehåll|Contents"Gunnar Henriksson: Mannen bakom allt", Ola Andersson, Hans Loord"Nittonhundraåttiofem" Ola Andersson"Landscape as a Body (To Dress)", Katja Grillner"Nya Slussen", Daniel Johansson, Johanna Håkansdotter- Karlsson, Tor Lindstrand, Martin Losos, Victor Mickelsson, Sara Vall, Ann-Charlotte Wiklander, Frida Öhlin"Patchwork: Albano Sustainable Campus", Stephan Bartel, Johan Colding, Hanna Erixon, Henrik Ernstson, Sara Grahn, Matts Ingman, Carl Kärsten, Lars Marcus, Jonas Torsvall"Multireligiös begravningsplats på Järva friområde", Henrik Vogt"Bridging the Gap", Alexis Pontvik"Tullinge Idea Store: Plats, struktur, program" Jesús Azpeitia"Treasures from the Archive: Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen, Camillo Sitte", Anders Bergström"Reading Architecture and Beauty: Conversations with Architects about a Troubled Relationship, Yael Reisner with Fleur Watson", Frida Rosenberg"Leon Battista Alberti, Identical Copies, and the Early Modern Invention of Architectural Design", Mario Carpo"Three Concepts of Performative Design: Proturbance, Porosity, Venation", Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Daniel Norell
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Perspecta 40 "Monster" : The Yale Architectural Journal
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary architecture is in many ways a monstrous thing. It is bigger, more broadly defined, increasingly complicated, more costly, and stylistically and formally heterogeneous—if not downright unhinged. Not only is the scale of the built environment expanding, but so is the territory of the architectural profession itself. A perfect storm of history, technology, economics, politics, and pedagogy has generated a moment in time in which anything seems possible. The results have been at times strange and even frightening.Long ago, the birth of an abnormal creature was interpreted as a sign of looming trouble. These monstra—from the Latin monere, "to warn" and monstrare, "to show"—were viewed with both fear and fascination. This fortieth issue of Perspecta—the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America—examines architecture past and present through the lens of the monster. The contributors—a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and artists—embrace the multitude of meanings this term carries in an attempt to understand how architecture arrived at its present situation and where it may be going. Perspecta 40 represents in itself a kind of monster—a hybrid, jumbled, conflicting amalgamation of work and ideas that looks at the past in new ways and tells of things to come.Contributors: Philip Bernstein, Mario Carpo, Arindam Dutta, Ed Eigen, Mark Gage, Gensler, Marcelyn Gow and Ulrika Karlsson (servo), Catherine Ingraham, Mark Jarzombek, Terry Kirk, Leon Krier, Greg Lynn, John May, John McMorrough, Colin Montgomery, Guy Nordenson, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Emmanuel Petit, Kevin Roche, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow) and Ryuji Fujimura, Michael Weinstock, Claire Zimmerman.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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A transnational passage of Swedish architects to Texas, and reverse
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a story on how architecture in Sweden was influenced by the “Texas Rangers” –an unprecedented teaching program taking place at UT Austin in the late 1950s leading the way in architecture pedagogy eventually formulating the origins and explanations for a postmodern revolution in architecture of the 1980s.[1] It is also a story on how fragments of classical architecture makes up the foundation for the postmodern era, which has a revival in design practices today reaching a new cohesion.Via ivy-league educators staking down their territory in the Texas landscape, the ripple effects of this foundational architecture program at UT Austin spread all the way to Sweden. First, through architect Lars Lerup, Dean at Rice School of Architecture in 1993-2009. Second, through a productive exchange program for students and teachers at Lund University during the same timeframe. In this way Swedish architects found themselves in the urban densities of Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth, while Texas professors spent a semester in Lund teaching architecture. A central figure in this transnational passage of Swedish architects, and reverse, is Abelardo Gonzalez. An architect who designed unforgettable postmodern interiors of the underground world in Malmö, Sweden. Like most interior designs, only fragments of these designs remain. Yet, the drawings and models and other documents are a recent acquisition to the Center for Swedish architecture and Design, ArkDes. These are an archival treasure that can add an additional understanding of how the Texas Rangers teaching program influenced Swedish postmodernism, architecture education as well as why it makes sense to revisit this lineage in history from a contemporary design perspective. [1] The Texas Rangers are made up by Collin Rowe, John Hejduk, Robert Slutzky, Werner Seligmann, among others.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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Arne johnson’s material research introducing steel frame building in postwar sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Structures and Architecture. - : Informa UK Limited. ; , s. 997-1004
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- By introducing structural steel in the 1960s Sweden, the Wenner-Gren Center, a 25-storey building, signaled the advent of new assembling technologies in architecture that would change the structure and practice of material use in Swedish postwar environment. This paper establishes how construction occurred at the project planning stage, engaging building consultants, the building committee and the engineer Arne Johnson. During and in the time between meetings, these various actors discussed the conditions for the high-rise. Investigations of the ground at the site were formalized in a report; tables specified the timeframe for building the structure; and building costs calculations served as documentation of how the high-rise could be realized. In these documents representing different voices, the engineer holds expertise and power, showcasing how Arne Johnson’s voice was decisive in implementing a steel structure for the building.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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Imagening the Wenner-Gren Center
- 2018
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Ingår i: Plan. - Stockholm : Föreningen för Samhällsplanering. ; 73:6-7, s. 95-106
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Wenner-Gren Center, which was conceived and built between 1954 and 1966, is a complex of three buildings that at the time of construction was imagined as a research hub in Stockholm. The project was sponsored by a private individual, Axel Wenner-Gren, and endorsed by Sweden’s Prime Minister, Tage Erlander. At the time, establishing an interdisciplinary research center was in line with the Social Democratic Party’s political agenda to advance research in general. The Wenner-Gren Center also fulfilled another objective of providing easier access to housing accommodations for visiting researchers in Stockholm in the housing shortage that prevailed. In what follows, I will introduce the political setting and the premises for the future Wenner-Gren Center. Both were unusual in the informal as well as formal negotiations. My intention is to highlight the significance of the alliance between the Prime Minister Tage Erlander and Axel Wenner-Gren, which was authorized by the common agenda to give shape to an interdisciplinary research institute. The vision of how a building is going to be built is central to all forms of agency when we discuss architecture. How to imagine is a constitution of both humanist and measurable values, such as having the means to make it possible to build, which includes both capital and authority. A particular feature of the Swedish postwar era is that these actors were most often very close to the armature of governance.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Meet Modern Sweden or, the Goddess of “The End of Ideology”
- 2014
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Ingår i: AHRA PHD Conference, <em>Setting Out, Dublin, May 2014</em>.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1963 the Meet Modern Sweden campaign promoted Swedish export on the North American continent. Setting out to increase interest in Sweden, the agenda was to replace an image of a quaint, socialist country with that of a highly industrialized nation. Along with participation in the New York World’s Fair, the campaign, which lasted for three years, had a striking ambition; to change an attitude about a country. My paper explains how the Swedish industry showcased excellence in science and technology, yet foremost, I examine the background to this operation. Unravelling this particular corporative move illustrates how the Swedish state-industry alliance worked. In extension it embodied investments in industrial technology and scientific research as well as urban planning and architecture, which formulated Sweden’s Middle Way. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how Sweden cemented its culture of handshakes between the State and important stakeholders, which as a result destabilized political ideology. Looking at the Swedish campaign and especially the pavilion entitled Creative Sweden - Land of free enterprise makes us understand that this culture was important. In an official photograph, the Swedish King is pictured together with a female welder at the Volvo factory. Representing the Swedish progressive machinery, a result of corporative efforts, she is the Goddess of “The End of Ideology”.[1][1] ”The End of Ideology” was a leitmotif within political science and public debate of the 1950s and 60s internationally. In Sweden, Herbert Tingsten, an important newspaper editor carried on this thesis in the public debate arguing that Sweden was leading this development.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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Science for architecture : Designing architectural research in post-war Sweden
- 2012
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Ingår i: Footprint. - 1875-1504. ; 10, s. 97-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How did architectural research in Sweden become scientific in its approach rather than artistic, as architecture education in the post-war period was primarily influenced by the Bauhaus pedagogy? Via the American Bauhaus pedagogical developments taking place at the IIT and the GSD, Swedish architecture education adopted the artistic 'learning by doing' approach. The most interesting structure signifying this was a permanent exhibition of building materials located in the foreground of the 1957 KTH architecture school. When the new KTH architecture school was completed its architecture illustrated another image: that of the new architecture curriculum, A68, put into practice the same year as the building was designed. A68 reorganized architecture education and put more focus on environmental studies and building function analysis. The new curriculum included the subjects Formlära, Design Principles, and Byggnadsfunktionslära, Building Function Analysis, which were technical in their approach of using empirical research. As a result, the 1969 KTH architecture building included a laboratory for testing technical problems in air-conditioned spaces as well as a laboratory for testing acoustics. The 1961 LTH architecture building included a full-scale-laboratory where studies were directed by Carin Boalt, the first female professor at a technical university.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Scientific Environmentalism : Design Research in Sweden towards the end of the 1960s
- 2011
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Ingår i: When Architects Design, Draw, Build, ? A PhD, Annual Symposium Of The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, May 2011, Århus.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How did architecture research in Sweden become scientific in its approach rather than artistic when architecture education in the postwar period has primarily been influenced by the Bauhaus pedagogy?A68 reorganized the architecture education and put more focus on environmental studies and building function analysis. As a result, the architecture building included a laboratory for testing technical problems in air-conditioned spaces as well as a laboratory for testing acoustics. The investigation preceding the new curriculum was singularly prepared by Lennart Holm.1Sometime in the mid-1960s the subject Formlära, Design Principles, as well as Byggnadsfunktionslära, Building Function Analysis, became more and more technical in its approach using empirical research. Most of the published research results in Building Function Analysis came from Lund University and was directed by Carin Boalt, the first female Professor at a technical university.21 Lennart Holm worked for the Building Research Board for a long time, completing his PhD dissertation Familj och 2 Carin Boalt had worked on issues regarding nutrition at the National Institute of Public Health until she was appointed Professor of the new subject Building Function at Lund University
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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Steel as medium : Constructing WGC, a tallish building in postwar Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Producing Non-Simultaneity. - : Taylor and Francis. ; , s. 65-82
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On November 1, 1955, public radio and the front pages of the local newspapers announced that the industrialist and founder of Electrolux, Axel Wenner-Gren, together with his celebrity wife and former opera singer Marguerite Wenner-Gren had donated four million Swedish kronor towards establishing a foundation. The donation held a promise to create an institution and a building complex that could gather scientists in Stockholm including visiting researchers from abroad 1 (Figure 4.1). It was a significant amount of money at that time, which claimed several stakes: For one, the Wenner-Gren Center Foundation (WGC Foundation) had been endorsed by Prime Minister Tage Erlander. Establishing a centre was in line with the Social Democratic Party’s political agenda to advance research in general. Erlander had thus made a promise to provide a property for the location of the WGC at the courtesy of the state. Second, Axel Wenner-Gren argued for advancing science that could underpin solutions to problems that the world was facing. On a personal note, Axel Wenner-Gren’s philanthropic initiative hypothetically was made to whitewash his disreputable status. He had been accused for supporting the Nazi regime and therefore blackmailed by the US government. But foremost, the WGC Foundation intended to establish a specific location for interdisciplinary research. As such, the WGC was imagined as a centre for symposiums and conferences, and offices for different research administrations, as well as accommodating visiting researchers and their families through rental apartments.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Steel as Medium. Constructing WGC, aTallish Building in Postwar Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: EAHN 2014 corno. ; , s. S1.2-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Between 1959–62 the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm was built to promote international cooperation in scientific research. It includes a 25-story tall building, where the steel frame, abandoned in Sweden since before the First World War, was reintroduced as a construction method. Reinforced concrete dominated the Swedish building industry in the post 1945 era. Before constructing the high-rise, building-methods were discussed, evaluated and tested. During construction the building complex was reported in newspapers, described in trade magazines and mediated through a 15 minute long documentary. This puts into focus how aspects of the production of this building extend beyond what is usually thought of as the building site. My paper argues that the building project includes several sites of production where technical know-how, a new project process and the presence of the media created a space of possibility, within which steel was the medium.The steel lattice truss relied on constructional knowledge from the 19th century. However, a building form that narrowed towards the top and a rhombic footprint challenged designers and contractors in matters of precision, statical calculations and prefabrication. The Wenner-Gren Center signifies a modern trend towards the use of highly skilled experts, dealing with new materials and processes, coping with the lack of norms, and with their own inexperience. This draws attention to the non-simultaneity of a project where construction takes place in different modes at several sites. Steel as a material caused architecture to make use of traditional building methods, such as welding while also implementing new methods of assembly. How do we understand the role of material within the frame of non-simultaneity?
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- Rosenberg, Frida, et al.
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Structural Systems of Swedish Mass Housing
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Industrial building in 2020 is far muddier and more complex than expected. This catalogue is a study and mapping of contemporary structural systems in Sweden right now. Mapping actors in the building industry, including developers, factories, architects, organizations and companies, displays a motley array of methods and processes for building millions of homes for Sweden’s growing population. But do they provide good housing for the masses? Studying the material compositions of structural systems as well as recent building permits in the Stockholm region over the past couple of years reveals a taxonomy of how mass housing has implemented industrial building methods, but not always as expected.Is it time again to collaborate more and share the knowledge of structural building systems in order to have a more efficient production apparatus? Former KTH researcher and engineer Peter Adler speculated on the fourth generation of industrialized building, a conceptual understanding of efficient building production in which sharing of platforms, concepts and processes would advance. This, in turn, would encourage and support an adaptability to diversity in terms of living conditions as well as changes in local and regional conditions for development. We wanted to grasp this potential in industrialized building by continuing the trajectory of understanding tectonics with regards to materials (concrete, wood, steel, and composites) and scales of elements (from small-scale such as beam and lintel construction to a middle-scale of prefabricated elements and large-scale in prefabricated volume elements). Therefore, we developed a categorization loosely based on Constructing Architecture, Material Processes Structures: A Handbook (Andrea Deplazes, Ed.) and the writings of Kenneth Frampton, although the historical tracing of this study has a deeper and more explicit ambition to map structural systems.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Så kan prefab kan hjälpa till
- 2019
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - Stockholm : Arkitektur förlag. - 0004-2021. ; :7, s. 72-77
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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The A-building in Stockholm : A Structural Implementation of theArchitecture Curriculum
- 2011
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Ingår i: Teaching Architecture, Practicing Pedagogy, Princeton University, 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article will show how the architecture building at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has been a structural implementation of the architecture curriculum at the time and critically question the paradoxical realization of an architectural ideology, which belonged to a specific timeframe in Sweden.Taking first place as Stockholm’s ugliest building on several occasions through voting polls by the general public, it was doomed as a failure by the architecture students already in 1971, less than a year after its completion.Designed by Professor Gunnar Henriksson, who had an almost obsessive structural vision, corridors between studio spaces and offices are completely abolished. He used raw materials such as concrete, steel and tile. In addition, the architecture was a total image of the new architecture curriculum, A68, put into practice the same year as the building was designed.A68 reorganized the architecture education and put more focus on environmental studies and building function analysis. As a result, the architecture building included a laboratory for testing technical problems in air-conditioned spaces as well as a laboratory for testing acoustics. Prof. Henriksson was fully responsible for the programmatic description, project management and building construction. In addition, the investigation preceding the new curriculum was singularly prepared by Henriksson 's old friend Lennart Holm, which puts the project process into question.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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The Construction of Construction : The Wenner-Gren Center and the possibility of steel building in postwar Sweden
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm, built between 1954 and 1966, consists of three buildings dedicated to interdisciplinary and scientific research, designed by Sune Lindström and Alf Bydén of Vattenbyggnadsbyrån (VBB). The project was sponsored by Axel Wenner-Gren, and received support from the Swedish state through the donation of a property at the northern end of Stockholm’s thoroughfare Sveavägen. This thesis considers how the construction of the Wenner Gren Center played into a complex web of infrastructural alliances that both shaped and were shaped by the development of a new building format. It studies how the technical, social and economic processes in play during the project constituted a purposeful attempt to research a wider landscape of possibility in construction.Pivotal to my investigation is the fact that steel was re-introduced as a structural building material in Sweden during the construction of the Wenner-Gren Center, which fundamentally affected that process. The thesis asks “what made steel building possible at the Wenner-Gren Center” It becomes evident that the answers to this question are multivalent. The thesis allows the particularities of different knowledge-practices combined into the architecture project to speak by mapping the debates between the actors involved: architects, engineers, various construction consultants and the investors and politicians behind the project. The thesis also implicates operational formats such as research test results regarding technical development, financial calculations, and pre-construction analyses in order to visualize how architecture is regulated. In other words, my investigation examines various agencies in the architectural process in order to unfold the significance of a single case study.The thesis consists of a prologue, five chapters and a conclusion, a Swedish summary and a bibliography backed by more than 150 illustrations, many of them never published before.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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The End of Skiing
- 2019
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Ingår i: Domus. - Milano : Editoriale Domus Spa. ; :5
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change is increasingly impacting on where and when we can go skiing. In the absence of snow at previously prosperous ski-tourism resorts, fanciful options are emerging to prevent the end of winter and their economic collapse.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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The Possibility of Steel-building in Post-war Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Industries of Architecture, 11th AHRA International Conference, Newcastle University School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, 13-15 November 2014.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- My thesis investigates the context of handshakes, material and building the Wenner-Gren Center, which re-introduced the steel-frame in postwar Sweden. Focusing on the embodiment of politics, capital, values and effect of a project, I examine the way we understand the boundary of architecture and what made steel-building possible?While planning for the Wenner-Gren Center, the responsible engineer was also asked to investigate the potential for steel as a construction material in Sweden. This mobilized investigation coordinated by proponents in the steel industry led to founding the Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, SBI, in 1969. Through mapping how steel building was professionalized during the post-war era, this paper aims, through a historical account, to show the mechanisms through which materials and construction methods are implemented. With this experience at hand, is this analysis applicable to the contemporary milieu?
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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The Technological Sublime : Slussen, Katarinahissen and Wenner-Gren Center
- 2013
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Ingår i: Architecture in Effect. ; , s. 47-48
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper will discuss the 20th century technological sublime through three important steel frame structures in the urban context of Stockholm—Slussen, Katarinahissen and Wenner-Gren Center. These will historically be placed as “emotional configurations that both emerged from and helped to validate new social and technological conditions.” Slussen and Katarinahissen are two powerful structures, which imbued a public experience of the city with an atmospheric vantage point. These infrastructures illustrate political and social attempts to transform the urban landscape supported by particular technologies: the introduction of rolled steel and the electrical elevator. Both have arguably been the two most important factors for the possibility to construct tall buildings. Together with a few other high-rises built at the same time, Wenner-Gren Center productively established a vertical experience of the city. The visual construction of the building, which capped off the end of Sveavägen was documented and publicized through film and other media communicating its becoming to a public audience. This paper argues that the social context of building technology is that of aesthetical experiences within political systems, and it is also, at the time, a result of negotiations among ascendant politicians and businessmen. The technological sublime of Wenner-Gren Center, Slussen and Katarinahissen illustrate how architecture integrates into the fabric of social life. What these structures meant to the city resonates with how they have been experienced. At the moment of construction, or moment of disassembling (the old) Katarinahissen in 1933, were remarkable engineering projects that esteemed fascination. The public experience on the street is one level of understanding city development; newspaper charging these objects with a storyline another and technical descriptions to a field of engineers yet another. This essay will unfold this, capitalizing on David E. Nye’s conception of the technological sublime.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Transatlantic Humanism : Correspondance between William Wurster and Scandinavian Architects
- 2013
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Ingår i: Architectural elective affinities.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- After a visit to UC Berkeley in 1954, Steen Eiler Rasmussen writes a long letter to William Wurster, Dean of the College of Architecture, on his return to Denmark in which he talks about being tired of European architecture discussions. Rasmussen proposes that "it is time to formulate a new movement, an association of architects who stand for sane ideas, for a realistic architecture."[i]Through correspondence between William Wurster and Scandinavian architects during the post-war period it becomes apparent that shared humanist values was a foundation for buildings as well as architectural debate, which collectively articulated a modernist rationale. This sensitive architecture has been understood as separated regionalisms (Bay area Regionalism and New Empiricism) but can be spoken of as connective tissue between architects that shared ideals, opinions and even drawings. This paper aims to illustrate that not only were there a gathering of architects across the Atlantic who wished to improve the human environment beyond monumental ideas and stylistic visions for the masses, but also to problematize how the canon of architecture history of this period has been distinguished by nation, region or continent. William Wurster and his Scandinavian peers’ commitment to a social and individual conditioning of architecture appear strong at heart. This becomes very clear in reasoning beyond Modernism’s dogma and in particular through William Wurster’s public disapproval of Arne Jacobsen’s architecture, which was more attuned to the International style. Disguised as Glassy Brutalism, William Wurster’s slip stirred up some feelings and ended with an apologizing letter to Danish architect Kay Fisker.[i] Steen Eiler Rasmussen, letter to Catherine and William Wurster, August 21, 1954. Wurster Dean Records, folder Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Box 14.
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- Rosenberg, Frida, 1975-
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Visionary Densities
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Ultzama Campus 2010 Architecture and Society: "on mobility", The Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, Ultzama Valley, June 29-31, 2010.
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- Rosenberg, Frida
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What is a steel construction?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Structures and Architecture: Concepts, Applications and Challenges - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Structures and Architecturechitecture, ICSA 2013. - : CRC Press. ; , s. 1963-1971
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction was founded in 1969 and marks the organization of steel-building incorporating research and actively informing its members on development in the field. This paper argues that the professionalization process of the steel-building industry was dependent on the ideal to be able to build tall buildings. The advantages of building in steel are foremost time efficiency related to production and this is in turn was dependent on three different construction improvements. First, solutions for fireproofing steel constructions, such as vermiculite; the introduction of high-strength bolts; and the air impact wrench, which entered the market in the 1950s. In addition, the steel building industry organized itself using the Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute as a model. CBI had been very successful in organizing and developing concrete building technologies through research and this seems to have been an essential component of developing the steel-building field.
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