MATS EGELIUS MATS EGELIUS

Cyprus Architecture Lectures
Succesfull sustainable urban
development on large scale
- the Hammarby Sjostad
development in Stockholm
University
of Cyprus
MATS
EGELIUS
25 OCTOBER 2013

Succesfull sustainable urban development on large scale
- the Hammarby Sjostad development in Stockholm
Mats Egelius will give a presentation of the housing situation in Sweden and give a thourough insight
in the Hammarby Sjöstad development-internationally aclaimed for sustainable design.
Mats Egelius, Senior Partner White,head of our market sector Housing. Mats studied architecture at Oxford,
BA (hons), and at the Architectural Association, London. He has worked in several Swedish architectural firms,
including Ralph Erskines office, and is since twenty years a Partner in White – the largest firm of architecture in
Scandinavia. Mats Egelius has won numerous architectural competitions and has been in charge for more than
180 commissions. Mats is among the leading swedish architects of his generation in housing and urban design.
He designed the first phase of Hammarby sjöstad, and has had over 700 dwellings (in six separate blocks) built
in this internationally praised development. Furthermore, Mats has been co-editor of Arkitektur (the Swedish
review of architecture) and has written the book "Ralph Erskine, architect". Mats Egelius is member of the
Swedish Academy of Architecture and frequently lectures on topics such as housing tendencies, housing for
the elderly, garden cities, solarpanels, own projects and Hammarby Sjöstad (watercity).
on 25th October 2013 at 19:30 at the Department of Architecture,
on the Ground Floor, University of Cyprus, Nicosia [at the end of Ledra Street]
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