Divine Architecture in a secular country. Before our heritage is sold or demolished. Hurry up, go to church, take the holy sacrament!
A compilation of national and international edition of RUM Magazine, April 2023. Presentation in 43 pages with a selection of images from 35 years of work. Interview by Martin Brusewitz. Swedish edition includes cover story with text and photo, where I pay tribute to the Hungarian mathematician Josef Petzval and Russian princess Yusupova.
Gunnar Asplund´s project from 1931 for The Swedish Society for Crafts and Design presented for the first time in thorough form. A 305×205 mm, 96 pages book at Arkitektur förlag with text by Anders Bodin and graphic design by Fredrik Neppelberg.
Cultural and historical inventory of Arbottna Manor 70 km south of Stockholm. With Annika Jägerholm, curator at the City Museum. 93 pages published report, graphic designed by Art Director Sakari Paananen.
Collaboration with Andreas Martin-Löf Architects. 2016 and onward.
Architecture Biennial, Venice. Form Magazine #4 2016.
The Royal Castle in Stockholm is not a provincial copy. It is pure and true Italian Baroque. The architect; Nicodemus Tessin worked and studied with Lorenzo Bernini in Rome. And yet it is unmistakingly swedish in its rational structure. Maybe that is a result of the constant struggle between the architect and the commissionaire. The ascetic king, Karl XII had little taste for domestic comfort. He preferred to sleep in tent with his men on the battlefield. He demanded Tessin many times to keep it more simple (and save money). But when he refused to listen (and got the funds) the architect fulfilled a grandiose baroque vision for a Super-power soon to be ceased. Selection published in RUM #151 September 2014.
In front of Grand Hotel Stockholm, Marge Architects placed a group of four bronze plated pavilions where you can get a ticket for a boat tour or a cup of coffee. Also used as storage for the traffic to Stockholm archipelago, the challenge was to interact with historic buildings in the heart of the city. Captured in late warm summer 2013.
The ultimate documentation of Artur von Schmalensee´s modernistic masterpiece from 1963. The Kiruna Town Hall will soon be demolished when LKAB company expands their underground mines. Like entire city of Kiruna, this building is cracking from dynamite blasts 1500 meters below ground surface. In just a few years the city centre will be transformed into gravel and dust. Eventually it will rise in a different place. Form magazine #2 2013. Text by Po Tidholm.
Post war Architecture by Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson. Commercially successful but artistically neglected they practically built everything in south Sweden during the “golden ages”. The older, Fritz Jaenecke (1903-1978) escaped nazi Germany when Albert Speer noted him as “not reliable”. Together with the much younger Sten Samuelson (1926-2002) they formed a creative team, responsible for some very powerful exponents of Modernism and early Post Modernism. Coming book at Trema Publishing.
At home with Sven-Harry Karlsson, building contractor and art mecenat. The 1800th century original on which a life size replica was based and built on top of his own museum. Form Magazine #2 2011. Text by Daniel Golling.
Forum No.2 2009; Magazine for Scandinavian Architecture, Interiors and Design. New release with art direction by Henrik Nygren. Covering the Bank of Sweden, a masterpiece by Peter Celsing from 1976. Text by Wilfried Wang.
Forum Price winner 2006; VM Complex by Plot (Bjarke Ingels and Julien de Smelt) and second price, Kastrup Sea Bath by White Architects.
Zaha experience at Odrupgaard art museum, Denmark. Forum magazine 4.05.
Commission by “Moderna” to capture the re-opened museum after restoration of Rafael Moneo´s moist damaged building. Selection published in “Forum” #0204.
A compilation of interiors by Marge Architects. Public and private projects from 2003 and onward.
Forum Architecture and Interior Magazine. A close collaboration with editor Mark Isitt and graphic designers Patric Leo and Henrik Nygren, between 2002-2009. It took me to many places in Sweden, Iceland, UK, Japan, Denmark, Norway, Finland. Always with a tight budget and the demanding words from the chief editor in my head, “Go out and work your magic!”
“Trailblazers at the digital frontier”, Claes Britton about the it-boomers at Spray company in 1999. Published in Stockholm New magazine.