KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
klara källström & thobias fäldt: 1970 – 2015
klara källström & thobias fäldt: 1970 – 2015 The artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt use the medium of photography to make conceptual work; the camera is a tool for visual thinking. In 1970 - 2015, Källström and Fäldt put the presence of architecture students at the centre of our attention. The still ongoing activity that has taken place in the KTH School of Architecture building on Östermalmsgatan 26 in Stockholm since its inauguration in the 1970’s is made tangible. Källström and Fäldt have turned their focus to the work tables found in the Upper Atelier. The use of a photographic macro perspective enables a close study of the tabletops. Throughout the years, the surfaces have been marked by the students work. Photographic cut-outs are blown up to make visible the accumulated traces, from the first classes in January 1970 and up until the present, and thus from the very first to the very last student that has passed through the school. During the final academic semester that the KTH-A is housed in the building, a selection of large-scale prints from the series is put on display in an exhibition at the school’s gallery venue Triangeln. After the summer of 2015, the school will move into new premises and the building will be converted for other uses.
KLARA KÄLLSTRÖM & ThOBIAS FÄLDT have worked collaboratively since 2005 and have had solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions around the world, most recently at CULT Exhibitions in San Francisco (February to April 2015). They are the founders of the publishing company B-B-B-Books together with the design collective 1:2:3. The most recent title is Village (2015) by Källström and Fäldt. Altogether they have released ten books at their press. Their practice also includes public art works such as a commissioned piece for the walls of Danderyd Hospital Underground Station in Stockholm.
www.arch.kth.se www.kk-tf.com KTH School of Architecture Östermalmsgatan 26 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Designed and edited by Björn Ehrlemark, KTH School of Architecture Printed in 100 copies by Newspaperclub, London, United Kingdom, in May 2015
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
1970 - 2015
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Tables in the Upper Atelier, KTH School of Architecture
THE COVER The graphic pattern on the cover of this publication is an abstraction of the sunshading system of the KTH School of Architecture building. Screens with wooden louvres are mounted on a steel suspension outside of the south- and west-facing windows, for example in the Upper Atelier on the fifth floor (pictured above). The building was designed by a team of architects lead by Gunnar Henriksson and John Olsson and was inaugurated in 1970.
THE SCHOOL The KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture was founded in Stockholm in 1877 and today offers architectural education at all levels, from prepatory courses to a PhD programme. There are currently around 550 students enrolled in the professional programmes at Basic and Advanced level. The school has a well-equipped workshop, a digital fabrication lab and an architecture library with an extensive collection of books and academic journals. After the summer of 2015 the school is moving to a new building, designed by Tham & Videg책rd arkitekter, currently under construction on the KTH Campus.