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The Construction of Construction the Construction of Construction The Construction of Construction The Construction of Construction The Wenner-Gren Center and the possibility of steel building in postwar Sweden Frida Rosenberg KTH Royal Institute of Technology Architecture School of Architecture and the Built Environment SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden The Construction of Construction The Wenner-Gren Center and the possibility of steel building in postwar Sweden FRIDA ROSENBERG KTH Royal Institute of Technology Architecture School of Architecture and the Built Environment SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden © Frida Rosenberg 2018 Doctoral Thesis in Architecture KTH Royal Institute of Technology Architecture School of Architecture and the Built Environment SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden TRITA-ABE-DLT-1832 ISSN 1402-7461 ISBN: 978-91-7729-897-7 Graphic design in collaboration with Andrejs Ljunggren (Ateljé Andrejs Ljunggren). Printed in b/w on Cyclus 80/300 gsm. Effort has been made to identify and acknowledge all copyright owners of visual material. Should in spite of this any copyright owner be overlooked, please contact the author, so that material can be amended for further editions. Doctoral thesis submitted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm for public examination and defence of the Doctor of Philosophy degree on Friday 21st of September 2018, 14:00, lecture room F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, Stockholm. TABLE OF CONTENTS 208 CHAPTER 4: CONSTRUCTION SITES 10 PROLOGUE Component-based systems: the notion of prefabrication, from concrete to steel The architecture The influence of steel-bridge construction on the Wenner-Gren Center The construction Assemblage: joining steel parts with new technologies The state and the private sector What was construction doing for knowledge production? The Wenner-Gren Center as a thesis 44 CHAPTER 1: 260 CHAPTER 5: THE WENNER-GREN CENTER AS A PROTOTYPE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONSTRUCTION Thesis question and thesis arguments THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF Thesis arguments STEEL BUILDING Thesis outline Re-thinking material – from concrete to steel, or the other way around Literature review: Locating a gap in current research Where was steel? Mapping Swedish postwar architecture history writing System of procedural practices Current research within material studies Construction as the site for knowledge production Background to the thesis arguments Attitudes towards steel The postwar period and its political and economic context Institutionalization and professionalization – SBI 1968-72 The production of knowledge through the institutionalized scientific state Continued construction and knowledge production The emblematic space of Swedish industries The possibility of steel building 306 CONCLUSION: Methodology Using historical evidence THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE Understanding technological change from an architectural perspective WENNER-GREN CENTER IN OTHER PLACES Organization as architecture Advertisements Expanding the understanding of architecture A forgotten slide archive Architecture and technology Moving images and global coverage 94 CHAPTER 2: 353 SVENSK SAMMANFATTNING IMAGINING THE WENNER-GREN CENTER 359 APPENDICIES American premises for an International House Appendix 1: Axel Wenner-Gren, the industrialist and patron Negotiating architecture for science Appendix 2: Industrial design as design construction The architecture competition Appendix 3: Positioning Sweden in America through Meet Modern Sweden Reception and second round and the Swedish Pavilion Shaping an environment around an object 368 IMAGE CAPTIONS TO CHAPTER DIVIDERS 162 CHAPTER 3: ECONOMIES OF STEEL 369 ENDNOTES TO IMAGE CAPTIONS Tall buildings in concrete Managing costs of uncertainties Project management of expressive form 370 BIBLIOGRAPHY Pre-construction, mud and gravel Steel Why steel? 380 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 The Construction of 8 PROLOGUE PROLOGUE On November 1, 1955, Swedish public radio and the front pages of all the local newspapers announced that the industrialist and founder of Electrolux, Axel Wenner-Gren, and his celebrity wife, the former opera singer Marguerite Wenner- Gren, had donated ten million Swedish kronor for the establishment of a scientific foundation.2 The previous day, the couple had hosted a press con- ference at their grand villa in Diplomatstaden, in Stockholm’s embassy district. There, Axel Wenner-Gren had announced to the media that the couple’s aim was to establish a major international research center owned and administrated by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Wenner-Gren, then 72 years old, presented The Construction of this contribution as one of his last major philanthropic initiatives, stating that he firmly believed that scientific research could advance greatly if the material resources were available, and asserting that “research is an elementary and vital The Wenner-Gren Center’s primary mission is to promote factor for cultural progress and for society’s healthy development.”3 In order to international cooperation in scientific research, but already support what he believed to be “a surprising number of outstanding scientists in in its construction phase, it has been of great significance our little country,” he intended to establish the center and house it in an 18-story for the Swedish building industry by re-introducing tall building.4 This tower would be a venue for conferences and symposia; it steel as a competitive framing material, prompting new would contain a library, an auditorium, lecture halls, and apartments for about a technical solutions that have now become available to hundred researchers, as well as offices for the Wenner-Gren Foundation and other others in Swedish construction. research administrations. This was the very beginning of a vision of a center that Byggnadsvärlden no. 45, 19611 1 Translation by the author: “Wenner-Gren Centers främsta uppgift är att främja internationellt samarbete inom den vetenskapliga forskningen, men redan som byggnadsprojekt har det för svenskt byggande varit av mycket stor betydelse i det att det återinfört stålet som konkurrenskraftigt stommaterial i husbyggnader och framtvingat nya tekniska lösningar vilka nu står övrigt svenskt byggande till förfogande.” Byggnadsvärlden, no. 45 (1961): 1070. 2 At the press conference held in Axel Wenner-Gren’s office at Laboratoriegatan 10, the couple announced that they would donate five million Swedish kronor and an additional five million Swedish kronor once the center had been completed. Five million Swedish kronor correspond to 70.5 million Swedish kronor in today’s monetary value (2018). See Price Converter from the Middle Ages to 2100: http://historicalstatistics.org/Jamforelsepris.htm accessed March 12, 2018. Rodney Edvinsson and Johan Söderberg, “A Consumer Price Index for Sweden 1290-2008” in Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 57 (2011): 270-292. Both Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet featured Axel Wenner-Gren announcing the donation to science on the front page. See also Jan Wallander, Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna 1955-2000: Hur fåfänga visioner och världsförbättrarnit blev grunden till stora stiftelser (Stockholm: Atlantis, 2002), 15-19. There is also an English translation by Michael Knight: The Wenner-Gren Foundations 1955-2000: How vanity, visions and over-ambitious plans to improve the world led to the creation of great foundations, (Stockholm: Atlantis, 2002). 3 The American academic community was an inspiration for the initiation of the Wenner-Gren Center. Axel Wenner-Gren had experienced the productive outcome of interdisciplinary environments firsthand through the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This foundation acted as a coordinating body for hundreds of colleges and universities, and as an in- ternational clearing house for anthropological and sociological research in the USA. At the time that the Wenner-Gren Center was being founded, no fewer than five grand expeditions to locate remains of early humans were being sponsored by the foundation in New York. WGC Archive: Transcript Wenner-Gren Center – Ett vetenskapligt högkvarter i Sverige, IBRA radio interview with Ragnar Nilsson, one of the three scientists that had discussed, negotiated, researched and implemented the first proposal and program for the Wenner-Gren Center. December 30, 1955. 4 The tower was later designed as a 35-story tall building by the VBB architects Sune Lindström and Alf Bydén. However, the city of Stockholm limited the height of the tower to a 25-story-tall built structure. The definition of an 18-story building comes from the 10 11 IBRA radio interview. WGC Archive: Transcript Wenner-Gren Center – Ett vetenskapligt högkvarter i Sverige IBRA radio interview. December 30, 1955. would attract scientists from both Sweden and abroad.5 It was a response which reflected a contemporary international concern with supporting the development of the technical and scientific fields in the wake of the Second World War.6 [fig. 1] In a radio interview given one month later, Wenner-Gren explained the origins of the project. He also used the opportunity to draw attention to his long-standing generosity, stating that he had contributed an estimated amount of over 100 million Swedish kronor to various foundations and that he continued to donate an additional five million kronor annually (correspond- ing to 70.5 million kronor in 2018).7 This was of course a substantial amount in numbers considering the framing: a personal endowment out of a rich man’s pocket. Yet, behind Axel Wenner-Gren was a long-standing business empire, which had made him Sweden’s wealthiest man towards
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