Anders Bergström

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Anders Bergström (b. 1965) is Associate Professor in Architectural Theory and History since 2008 at the Department of Architecture, within KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment. Originally educated as an architect, he holds a PhD in Architectural History (KTH 2001), and a Diploma in Architectural Conservation from the Royal Institute of Art (KKH 2004, extended course 2023). He is responsible for a mandatory course at undergraduate level since 2008, and teach mandatory but elective seminar courses at graduate level, currently focusing on the archives of Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. He is also co-supervising two doctoral students, with topics regarding architectural education and conservation.

His research is based mainly on histories of knowledge, and on relationships between architecture and the humanities, ranging from professional and educational strategies, to preservation practices and critical historiographies. He was responsible for the sub area, Architects in Formation, within national research environment Architecture in Effect: Rethinking the Social in Architecture, directed by Professor Katja Grillner and funded by Formas (2011–2018), resulting in conference papers, peer-review articles and book chapters. Later publications include a co-edited volume on the former building for the KTH School of Architecture (2020), and a chapter on urban preservation in an age of environmental consciousness (2023).

Formerly focused on the interwar period, he is completing a book on the Stockholm Public Library, as a result of a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. This project has evolved into a collaboration with Dr. Patrick H. Fleming at ETH Zürich, managing a project on recovering the historical construction of the library, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (reported in 2024). Recent publications on the library include a conference paper, and two articles, published in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, and Docomomo Journal (2023, 2024).

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