James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron + Brunnsparken

Speculation is crucial in architectural practice and a central role of the architect is to think differently.

Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron (Arkitekturvisioner: Skeppsbron) highlights the artistic methods and visionary ideas of eight Stockholm-based architects and studios to propose new possibilities for Skeppsbron – a large waterfront site that stretches across the Swedish capital’s old town, Gamla Stan, from Slussen to the Royal Palace.


Fig 1. Eight models presenting speculative proposals for Skeppsbron in Stockholm highlight differing representional approaches and positions (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

As Stockholm’s oldest quay, Skeppsbron and Skeppsbrokajen have a unique history as the ‘shop window’ of Sweden: a hub for the import and export of goods, a marketplace, a thoroughfare, and a metaphorical bridge between the capital and the rest of Europe. Between people, ideas and commerce, this was once Stockholm’s foremost site of exchange. Although it still stands as a defining image of the city today, it has come to be dominated by car parks and underused public space.


Fig 2. Presented on a cast plinth of concrete, a collection of reference objects reflect a collective effort between participants in Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at ArkDes (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Through drawings, models, words and references, these eight visions consider possible futures for Skeppsbron as an architectural, symbolic, and public landscape. They celebrate the architect’s ability to address the city as a layered, multifaceted environment capable of absorbing unexpected proposals and, together, can help us to see its potential in a new light.


Fig 3. Large-scale drawings, models, and reference objects in Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at ArkDes (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Fig 4. Participating architects and studios of Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron: AT–HH, Krupinski/Krupinska, Hermansson Hiller Lundberg, OKK+, Esencial – Carmen Izquierdo, Elizabeth B. Hatz (not pictured), Tor Lindstrand, and Nilsson Rahm (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

In conjunction with Gothenburg’s 400th anniversary, Röhsska Museum alongside curator Naima Callenberg presents Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken (Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken) with eight speculative ideas for how one of the most debated public spaces in Gothenburg could look.


Fig 5. Eight speculative proposals reimagine one of Gothenburg’s most discussed public spaces in Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken at the Röhsska Museum (Carl Ander, 2021). Courtesy of Röhsska Museum.

Fig 6. Large-scale drawings, models, and reference objects in Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken at the Röhsska Museum (Carl Ander, 2021). Courtesy of Röhsska Museum.

Fig 7. Virtual opening of Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken with: Nina Due, Director of the Röhsska Museum; Naima Callenberg, curator and exhibition designer for Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken; Kieran Long, Director of ArkDes; James Taylor-Foster

About Architecture Projects

Architecture Projects is a rapid-response platform for architects to engage with the city, responding to broader discussions in which architecture has a central role. The project offers space for architects and practices of differing size and experience to be visionary: to speculate, consider and imagine the role of the architectural project in affecting different scales – from that of the interior to that of the city.

2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

A version of Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron formed part of the Cities Exhibition at the second edition of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (SBAU): Collective City. Curated by Yim Dongwoo and Rafael Luna, the exhibition was based on the concept of ‘cities as a collective consequence’ and aims to highlight cities “not only as an aggregated environment but as living, dynamic systems that are constantly changing.”


Fig 8. Drawings from Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron on display at SBAU 2019 (Hyosook Chin, 2019). Courtesy of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Fig 9. Drawings from Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron on display at SBAU 2019 (Hyosook Chin, 2019). Courtesy of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Participants (Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron) AT–HH, Esencial – Carmen Izquierdo, Elizabeth B. Hatz, Hermansson Hiller Lundberg, OKK+, Krupinski/Krupinska, Tor Lindstrand, Nilsson Rahm Exhibition Design Erik Törnkvist, ETAT ARKITEKTER Graphics Studio Reko Light Design El & Scenteknik Installation Markus Eberle, Stefan Mossfeldt Programme Daniel Golling, Karin Svensson, Elisabet Schön Installation Photography Johan Dehlin
Participants (Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken) Erik Järkil Arkitektur, Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter, Fabel Arkitektur, Mareld Landskapsarkitekter, Studio Johan Linton, Hedlund/Ekenstam, Unit Arkitektur, Per Nadén Arkitektur Curation and Exhibition Design Naima Callenberg Graphics Oskar Laurin Installation Photography Carl Ander

April 26 — June 09, 2019
Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron
Boxen,
ArkDes
September 07 — November 10, 2019
Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Donuimun Museum Village (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
June 05 — September, 2021
Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken
Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Selected Press Arkitekten, ArchDaily, Wallpaper

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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • ✶ WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, London2022
  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket2022
  • ✶ The Limits of Our World: LARP and Design2022
  • ✶ Solicited: Proposals2021
  • ✶ Studio Ossidiana: Utomhusverket2021
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, Stockholm2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron + Brunnsparken2019
  • Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex, Cruising Culture2019
  • The Craft of Swedish Videogame Design2019
  • Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson; Sigurd Lewerentz – Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • ASMR, An Exhibition Trailer2022
  • Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses2022
  • ASMRology2021
  • Plug-in Poesi2020
  • Interdependence: Stockholm and pandemia2020
  • Future Architecture Rooms2020
  • SOFT GOSSIP2020
  • Mukbang Veneziano2020
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • ✶ softspot2021
  • Living on Water2017
  • Elemental Living2016
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
IV.Speaking
  • ✶ Scaffold #612022
  • Salons, The New Architecture School2022
  • ✶ Protagonist of the Erotic: A Bed2022
  • OAT Academy, Curating Architecture2022
  • ✶ Protagonist of the Erotic: An Island2021
  • A Future for Exhibitions2021
  • Future Architecture CEx2020 Focus Talks2020
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Exhibition Models2017
V.Writing
  • Wang & Söderström: Royal Chambers2023
  • Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City2022
  • A Strange Sort of Weight2021
  • What’s Mine Is Theirs: an interview with Max Lamb2020
  • ✶ Screen Glow Sedation2020
  • No Time to Stand and Stare2020
  • On Norra Tornen2020
  • ✶ Don’t Fear a Snowflake2020
  • In Riga, A Conference On Architecture and Migration2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • Making Believe with Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • ✶ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • ✶ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • A Weak Monument2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • On the Cruising Pavilion2018
  • A Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • ✶ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.2018
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • ✶ On Liquid Modernity2017
  • ✶ #003399, #FFCC00; The Meaning of a Flag2017
  • Pillars of Society: “Jantelagen”2017
  • Exhibiting the Postmodern2017
  • Future Architecture and the Idea of Europe2017
  • Domains of Influence2017
  • Ingress: Black Rock City2017
  • In Dialogue With Gravity2017
  • Rem, Redacted2016
  • Media States, Or The State of Media2016
  • A Piece of England to Call One’s Own2016
  • Upon This Rock (I Will Build My Church)2016
  • The Design of the Species2016
  • Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding2016
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
Curatorial
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron + Brunnsparken 2019
  • in Boxen (ArkDes), 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Röhsska with AT–HH, Esencial – Carmen Izquierdo, Elizabeth B. Hatz, Hermansson Hiller Lundberg, OKK+, Krupinski/Krupinska, Tor Lindstrand, Nilsson Rahm, Erik Järkil Arkitektur, Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter, Fabel Arkitektur, Mareld Landskapsarkitekter, Studio Johan Linton, Hedlund/Ekenstam, Unit Arkitektur, Per Nadén Arkitektur
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Speculation is crucial in architectural practice and a central role of the architect is to think differently.

Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron (Arkitekturvisioner: Skeppsbron) highlights the artistic methods and visionary ideas of eight Stockholm-based architects and studios to propose new possibilities for Skeppsbron – a large waterfront site that stretches across the Swedish capital’s old town, Gamla Stan, from Slussen to the Royal Palace.


Fig 1. Eight models presenting speculative proposals for Skeppsbron in Stockholm highlight differing representional approaches and positions (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

As Stockholm’s oldest quay, Skeppsbron and Skeppsbrokajen have a unique history as the ‘shop window’ of Sweden: a hub for the import and export of goods, a marketplace, a thoroughfare, and a metaphorical bridge between the capital and the rest of Europe. Between people, ideas and commerce, this was once Stockholm’s foremost site of exchange. Although it still stands as a defining image of the city today, it has come to be dominated by car parks and underused public space.


Fig 2. Presented on a cast plinth of concrete, a collection of reference objects reflect a collective effort between participants in Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at ArkDes (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Through drawings, models, words and references, these eight visions consider possible futures for Skeppsbron as an architectural, symbolic, and public landscape. They celebrate the architect’s ability to address the city as a layered, multifaceted environment capable of absorbing unexpected proposals and, together, can help us to see its potential in a new light.


Fig 3. Large-scale drawings, models, and reference objects in Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at ArkDes (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Fig 4. Participating architects and studios of Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron: AT–HH, Krupinski/Krupinska, Hermansson Hiller Lundberg, OKK+, Esencial – Carmen Izquierdo, Elizabeth B. Hatz (not pictured), Tor Lindstrand, and Nilsson Rahm (Johan Dehlin, 2019). Courtesy of ArkDes.

In conjunction with Gothenburg’s 400th anniversary, Röhsska Museum alongside curator Naima Callenberg presents Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken (Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken) with eight speculative ideas for how one of the most debated public spaces in Gothenburg could look.


Fig 5. Eight speculative proposals reimagine one of Gothenburg’s most discussed public spaces in Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken at the Röhsska Museum (Carl Ander, 2021). Courtesy of Röhsska Museum.

Fig 6. Large-scale drawings, models, and reference objects in Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken at the Röhsska Museum (Carl Ander, 2021). Courtesy of Röhsska Museum.

Fig 7. Virtual opening of Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken with: Nina Due, Director of the Röhsska Museum; Naima Callenberg, curator and exhibition designer for Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken; Kieran Long, Director of ArkDes; James Taylor-Foster

About Architecture Projects

Architecture Projects is a rapid-response platform for architects to engage with the city, responding to broader discussions in which architecture has a central role. The project offers space for architects and practices of differing size and experience to be visionary: to speculate, consider and imagine the role of the architectural project in affecting different scales – from that of the interior to that of the city.

2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

A version of Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron formed part of the Cities Exhibition at the second edition of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (SBAU): Collective City. Curated by Yim Dongwoo and Rafael Luna, the exhibition was based on the concept of ‘cities as a collective consequence’ and aims to highlight cities “not only as an aggregated environment but as living, dynamic systems that are constantly changing.”


Fig 8. Drawings from Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron on display at SBAU 2019 (Hyosook Chin, 2019). Courtesy of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Fig 9. Drawings from Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron on display at SBAU 2019 (Hyosook Chin, 2019). Courtesy of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Participants (Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron) AT–HH, Esencial – Carmen Izquierdo, Elizabeth B. Hatz, Hermansson Hiller Lundberg, OKK+, Krupinski/Krupinska, Tor Lindstrand, Nilsson Rahm Exhibition Design Erik Törnkvist, ETAT ARKITEKTER Graphics Studio Reko Light Design El & Scenteknik Installation Markus Eberle, Stefan Mossfeldt Programme Daniel Golling, Karin Svensson, Elisabet Schön Installation Photography Johan Dehlin
Participants (Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken) Erik Järkil Arkitektur, Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter, Fabel Arkitektur, Mareld Landskapsarkitekter, Studio Johan Linton, Hedlund/Ekenstam, Unit Arkitektur, Per Nadén Arkitektur Curation and Exhibition Design Naima Callenberg Graphics Oskar Laurin Installation Photography Carl Ander

April 26 — June 09, 2019
Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron
Boxen,
ArkDes
September 07 — November 10, 2019
Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Donuimun Museum Village (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
June 05 — September, 2021
Architecture Projects: Brunnsparken
Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Selected Press Arkitekten, ArchDaily, Wallpaper
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