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Interview: Ralph Erskine + Ken Tadashi Oshima
Reflections on Six Decades of Design
The Erskines Own House
Essay: Working with Ralph Erskine and his Office
Geoffrey Denton
The Box
Molin House
Ski Hotel, Borgafjäll
Engström House
Gadelius House
Nordmark House
Essay: The Importance of Being Erskine
Dennis Sharp
Frescati, Stockholm University
Library and Students Centre
University Sport Hall
Law Student Building
University Hall, Aula Magna
Essay: Ralph Erskine on Extreme Environments Design
an Alternate Universe and a Rich Heritage for the Architects of the Future
Oscar Arenales-Vergara
St Görans Hospital Dining Room
Art Centre, Hedesunda
Essay: Belief in Tomorrows City
Personal Responsibility and Commitment in Urban Planning
Johannes Tovatt
Housing at Gyttorp
Housing at Hammarby
Housing at Barberaren
Housing at Nya Bruket
Housing at Jädraås
Housing at Myrstuguberget
Housing at Byker
Biography and Buildings Projects & Designs
Currents:
Zaha Hadid to design the Architecture Foundation Building
Tsunami Damage to Geoffry Bawas Works
Xaveer De Geyter Architects to design European Patent Office
Circus Art City, TOHU
Feature:
Ralph Erskine Living Legacy
The living legacy of Ralph Erskines architecture is embodied in his home and studio at Drottningholm, Sweden, as much alive today as when it was first completed in 1963. Erskine, now in his early 90s, has lived here with his family according to his own rational, humanistic design convictions and had continual contact with his adjacent office run by the energy of a younger generation inspired by his social and lucid vision of architecture.
His body of work spans six decades that traces a journey of an English architect who arrived in Sweden in 1939 to stay on to design houses, housing and entire communities. Beyond simply designing houses, Erskine continually sought to create homes in which the residents partake in the creative process, keeping the designs alive through their inhabitation.
This issue presents a broad cross-section of this work not simply as historic artifacts, but as a living creative process linked to both the past and future.
