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STOCKHOLM
Swedish architecture is traditional. In the 60s
architects build explosively on new urban areas.
Nowadays they don’t function well and are not very
popular. Patrick (Alle Hosper) says people lost
confidence in architecture.
In the 90s there was a crisis for building companies,
now there are only 5 big ones left. They have a
strong influence on current architecture climate,
there is less freedom and lack of possibilities
to experiment or be innovative.
The municipalitiy of Stockholm has a list of
offices which they ask for assignments. Once in
four years a new list appears. Mostly it doesn’t
change much. The system makes it difficult for
young or new offices to get assignments.
The landscape architecture in Sweden is agricultural
based. People work for the government or big
building companies, not for independent offices.
AllE HOSPER
Together in an office with an architectural office
and an interior architect. The dutch firm consists
of 24 people of landscape architects and urban
planners. They started a second firm in Stockholm,
lead by urban designer Patrick Verhoeven.
The approach is to find a clear strong vision
or idea and keep this as a basis in the design
process. The scale ranges from large landscape
planning to squares and furniture.
The plans in Stockholm are mostly large scale
interventions in the edge of the city. The plans
integrate landscape with the city.
In Sweden the scale on which Hosper want to work
does not exist as a strong discipline. Hosper has
to find a way to compete with architects, who work
on a smaller scale, or with the government which
does the abstract urban planning.
Hosper has a dutch way of working. They find
inspiration in the dutch empty landscape and have
a believe in making the landscape. The motor for
the plans is space, not the city. The urban plans
are in some ways modernistic. Hospers treats an
urban plan as a system, in an objective way,
looking for clarity and hierarchy. The plans are
strong on an urban scale, in the Netherlands it
is in our culture to create landscape, in Sweden
the landscape has different face. For a plan near
Stockholm the site has a lot of height difference,
this makes it necesarry to respond very presice
to the location and to design on the scale of an
individual building. This makes it difficult to
project a strong urban plan on the site.
NOD
Founded about ten years ago with 4 people. Workfield
is a range from parks, gardens and urban design.
Goal: to improve the interface between humansnature.
They want to change view. As a reference
they name fi SUPERSTUDIO.
LOLA landskapp
The architects are educated at Upsalla University.
It’sa more agricultural point of view of landscape.
There s a fear of cities/against.
Broadened their view in Barcelona around 1997