Publications by Chiara Monterumisi

Rödabergsområdet: a verdant small town idyll within the city

On the rocky peaks of the hilly area in north-western outskirts Stockholm, more than forty architects gave their contribution to approximately 2,500 dwelling units comprising the neighbourhood so-called Rödabergsområdet, which corresponds to one of the lon ...

2021

On the ‘cultural transfer’ of modern architecture northwards - Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte

Chiara Monterumisi

"Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte" is the latest in-depth contribution by Atli Magnus Seelow, one of several by him on the 1930 Stockholm exhibition and the book accepetera, the 200-page text often referred to as ‘the manifesto of Swedish function ...

2021

The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...

2020

Artistic genius or Anonymity for Gordon Bunshaft's architecture?

Chiara Monterumisi

2020

New Perspectives on the II CIAM onwards: How Does Housing Build Cities?

Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi

Far from nostalgically celebrate the 90th anniversary of the second CIAM, which indeed opened in October 1929 in Frankfurt, the present issue is intended as collective work, a springboard which aims to widen the debate over housing experiences beyond geogr ...

2019

“HOUSING Frankfurt Wien Stockholm”: Exhibition of 1920s–1930s Housing Initiatives

Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi

Frankfurt, Vienna and Stockholm: three European cities which played a fundamental role in the housing policies implemented during the inter-war period. The research projects and teaching activity carried out at the EPFL in the Laboratory of Construction an ...

2019

Francfort, Vienne, Stockholm : l'expression du collectif

Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi

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Esperienze concrete di una crescita moderna e democratica

Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi

Commentary of the exhibition "HOUSING - Frankfurt Wien Stockholm" 18 September- 2 November 2018 EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Project room Archizoom, Bâtiment SG foyer Curators: LCC - Laboratory of Construction and Conservation ...

2019

Beyond Classical Resonances. Stockholm Mass-Housing Experiments Before the 1930

Chiara Monterumisi

The goal of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition was to illustrate a national project around dwellings and household goods for the Swedish mass. Indeed, in the manifesto acceptera, the organisers masterminded by Gregor Paulsson, investigated the cultural situatio ...

2018

Genius loci e memorie urbane. Il progetto di Ragnar Östberg per l’area di Eldkvarn

Chiara Monterumisi

The paper explores the city of Stockholm, apparently far from the main tracks of other significant European examples due to its peculiar morphological features. The study investigates the Stockholm Town Hall (Stadshuset) and the nearby never-to-be realized ...

2018

TOWARDS THE "PEOPLE’S HOME". First housing districts in Stockholm

Chiara Monterumisi

The label «People’s home» coined by Swedish Social-Democrats expresses the first step towards the 1930s, 40s and early 50s, which would make Sweden a model for war-ravaged Europe. But “people” and “home” attracted planners, architects, co-operatives and po ...

2017

WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? Stockholm – Vienna’s large courtyard blocks

Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi

AMPS C.I.O.2017

The city and the urban space as a "forum" of collective living. The urban complex Stockholm Town Hall- Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

Chiara Monterumisi

“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of the ...

2016