Sten Gromark
Professor Emeritus at
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Sten Gromark is a Dr Professor of Architecture, Architect SAR/MSA, at Chalmers School of Architecture, Göteborg, Sweden, within the theme of Modern & Residential Architecture, Division of Building Design. He has been active in research on architectural sociology in international cooperation concerned with residential issues but has also published reflections on the influence of philosophical concepts within contemporary European architecture based on humanistic and social science oriented interpretations. He is the vice director of the Formas supported Strong Research Environment ‘Architecture in Effect’ 2011-2016 hosted by KTH in Stockholm and was the co-coordinator of the NordForsk supported Nordic-Baltic researcher network Visurf 2008-2011. Since 2012 he co-coordinates the CIB Commission W069 on ‘Residential Studies’. He is currently the Director of the Research Environment AIDAH, ‘Architectural Inventions for Dwelling, Ageing and Healthcaring’ supported by Formas 2014-2018 and hosted by Chalmers Architecture. He is a Swedish MC of EU COST Action Intrepid and the co-editor and author of the 2016 published text collection on Ashgate/Routledge; Ways of Residing in Transformation - Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
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Showing 105 publications
2019
Henri Raymond 1966: Voices of Residents – An Analytical Method. The Primacy of Residential Quality in Urban Creation.
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
Architecture in Effect #2(2) After Effects, p. 53-73
Book chapter
2019
Architecture in Effect Vol #1(2) : Rethinking the Social in Architecture – Making Effects.
Sten Gromark, Jennifer Mack, Roemer van Toorn
Edited book
2019
Architecture in Effect vol #1(2) Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects - Editors’ Introduction
Sten Gromark, Jennifer Mack, Roemer van Toorn
Architecture in Effect vol #1(2) Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects, p. 18-35
Book chapter
2019
Voices from the Inside: Residents’ Experiences in the Bois-le-Prêtre Alteration Project, Paris, 2013.
Katrin Paadam, Sten Gromark
Architecture in Effect Vol #1(2) : Rethinking the Social in Architecture - Making Effects., p. 213-231
Book chapter
2018
Diss. review of Turid Borgestrand Øien: Skimmelsvampevækst i boliger − praksisser og politikker I Mould growth in housing − practices and policies
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning (2), p. 161-167
Journal article
2017
Ways of residing in transformation - Interdisciplinary perspectives. [paperback re-edition]
Sten Gromark, Mervi Ilmonen, Katrin Paadam et al
Edited book
2017
Residential futures
Mervi Ilmonen, Katrin Paadam, Eli Støa et al
Ways of Residing in Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Book chapter
2017
Social Housing Renewal Challenged: La tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris 2012
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
Gromark, S., et al. (eds.) (2016), Ways of residing in transformation - Interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Ashgate., p. 172-197
Book chapter
2016
The Experience of Converted Spaces in Tallinn: Symbolic Change and Becoming of Identities
Katrin Paadam, Kristel Siilak, Sten Gromark
Gromark, S., et al. (eds.) (2016), Ways of residing in transformation - Interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Ashgate., p. 77-101
Book chapter
2016
Social Sustainability in Residential Solutions – A Swedish Case.
Björn Andersson, Sten Gromark
Book of Abstracts [Paper Presentation]', Sustainable Housing; Green Lines Institute; Porto, p. 47-
Paper in proceedings
2016
Residential Futures. Editors' Afterword.
Mervi Ilmonen, Katrin Paadam, Eli Støa et al
Gromark, S., et al. (eds.) (2016), Ways of residing in transformation - Interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Ashgate., p. 285-289
Book chapter
2016
Ways of residing in transformation: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Sten Gromark, Mervi Ilmonen, Katrin Paadam et al
, p. 1-305
Edited book
2016
From Housing to Residing: Conceptual considerations.
Katrin Paadam, Eli Støa, Sten Gromark et al
Gromark, S., et al. (eds.) (2016), Ways of residing in transformation - Interdisciplinary perspectives. London: Ashgate., p. 3-19
Book chapter
2015
'Situations of Empowerment or Denigration? [Review of Architecture and the Welfare State 2015]
Sten Gromark
Nordic - Journal of Architecture. Vol. 4, p. 115-116
Journal article
2014
Integrative Ways of Residing Health and Quality of Residence. A Concerted Trans-Disciplinary Research Effort - AIDAH ‘14-‘18. Architectural Inventions for Dwelling, Ageing and Healthcare
Sten Gromark, Inga Malmqvist, Peter Fröst et al
International Conference ARCH 14 on Research on Health Care Architecture, Helsinki Aalto University 19-21 Nov 2014
Paper in proceedings
2014
Voices of Residents – An Analytical Method; Henri Raymond 1966
Sten Gromark
NSBB Conference; Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), October 8-10, 2014
Paper in proceedings
2013
The Primacy of Residential Quality in Urban Creation. A Current Observation on a Recurring Notion
Sten Gromark
Revista Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura (9), p. 16-25
Journal article
2013
Architectures and Philosophies in Turmoil: Critical Situations of Architectural and Social Change.
Sten Gromark
The Reader. Symposium Reader for the Symposium 'Rethinking the Social in Architecture'. Umeå School of Architecture February 6-8, 2013. Stockholm., edited by Katja Grillner and Staffan Lundgren. Stockholm, 2013., p. 30-33
Paper in proceedings
2013
Shared housing and spatial invention / Habitat partagé et innovation spatiale - Europan 13 Themes
Sten Gromark
Europan Europe Website
Paper in proceedings
2013
A Case of Symbolic Transgression
Sten Gromark
Nordic - Journal of Architecture. Vol. 2 Winter 2012 (3), p. 94-98
Journal article
2013
A Third Wave of Receptions: Space as Concrete Abstraction, Lukasz Stanek on Henri Lefebvre
Sten Gromark
site (33)
Journal article
2013
The Becoming of Identities: A Case of Residential Resilience - Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, 2012.
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
CIB 2013 World Congress, Brisbane, 5-9 May 2013; 'Built Environment Research Focused on Social Outcomes''.
Paper in proceedings
2012
Bakåtblickar - Framtidsvyer / Looking Backwards - Looking Forwards
Sten Gromark
EuroPanic - Europan Sweden – a thousand new ideas for our cities / Europan Sverige – tusen nya idéer för våra städer, p. 76-80
Book chapter
2012
Ombyggnad med omtanke om det sociala i boendets arkitektur
Sten Gromark
Miljonprogrammet : Utveckla eller avveckla? Formas Fokuserar nr 20: Renoveringsboken: B. Johansson. Stockholm, Formas, p. 179-194
Chapter in monograph, book - popular science
2012
The Becoming of Residential Identities: A Case of Residential Resilience - Bois-le-Prêtre, 2012
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
Nordic Sociological Association: Trust and Social Change, Reykjavik, Iceland, 14-19 August 2012
Paper in proceedings
2011
Consuming Quality – Residential Prospects in Interdisciplinary Focus. The Fahle Maja Case
Katrin Paadam, Sten Gromark, Liis Ojamäe
HEJDUK, I. K. and W. M. GRUDZEWSKI. The World Economy: Contemporary Challenges COPE Conference Singapore 2011. Warsaw, DifSA
Book chapter
2011
Explorations of Extremes to unfold Prospects of the Unknown: Visions of Residential Futures - Integrative Ways of Residing
Sten Gromark, Anna Braide Eriksson
CONDITIONS magazine (8), p. 54-55
Magazine article
2010
Converted Residences – Re-Inventing Urban Heritage. A Sociological-architectural Enquiry – the Fahle Case
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
24th AESOP Annual Conference, Finland, 7 – 10 July 2010
Paper in proceedings
2010
Free Value. Residential Architecture and Symbolic Cultural Consumption
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
CONDITIONS - Independant Scandinavian Magazine for Architecture and Urbanism (NO) (4), p. 54-57
Magazine article
2009
Three days that didn't shake Göteborg
Sten Gromark
Skiascope Upp med rullgardinerna! Konsten i Göteborg under 1960- och 70-talet. Göteborgs Konstmuseums Skriftserie. Ed. Arvidsson, K. and J. Werner. (2)
Book chapter
2009
Skolrummets danande atmosfärer – mellan disciplinerande underkastelse och förlösande befrielse.
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning. Vol. 21 (1), p. 88-92
Magazine article
2009
Tre dagar som inte skakade Göteborg
Sten Gromark
ARVIDSSON, K. and J. WERNER. Skiascope 2 Upp med rullgardinerna! Konsten i Göteborg under 1960- och 70-talet. Göteborg, Göteborgs Konstmuseums Skriftserie., p. 133-162
Book chapter
2009
Mellan profession och akademi. Reflektioner kring arkitekturforskningens egenart.
Sten Gromark
FORMakademisk. Vol. 1 (2)
Journal article
2008
The Becoming of Residence: Cultural Diversities, Social Identities and Architectural Expressions – Renewed Orientations for Housing Research promoting Visions of Residential Futures.
Sten Gromark
Keynote speech presented to the CIB W69 Conference "Ways of Residing in Trans-Disciplinary Focus" in Tallinn 2008-06-13-15'.Ways of Residing in Trans-Disciplinary Focus, Tallinn, CIB.
Paper in proceedings
2008
Visions of Residential Futures – Spatial Advention as Creative Catalyst. The Case of Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse 2005. Renewed approaches to research and design strategies
Sten Gromark
Paper presented to the Formas Architectural Inquiries Conference in Göteborg 2008-04-25'.Architectural Inquiries, Göteborg, Chalmers Arkitektur/Formas.
Paper in proceedings
2007
Much Obliged
Sten Gromark
Research Magazine no. 7 : Building a doctoral programme architecture and design. Appreciations from collegues and friends of Halina Dunin-Woyseths contributions in the occasion of her 60th birthday. MIchl, J. and L. M. Nielsen. Oslo, Oslo School of Archtecture and Design
Journal article
2007
Uuriv arhiektuur. Intervjuu arhitekt Sten Gromarkiga/Exploring Architecture Interview with architect Sten Gromark by Katrin Paadam
Sten Gromark, Katrin Paadam
maja. Vol. 53 (3), p. 68-73
Magazine article
2007
Christiania - en studie i motståndets estetiska former
Sten Gromark
Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. Vol. 16 (4)
Journal article
2007
Cité Manifeste - Mulhouse 2005
Sten Gromark
Bostadens rum - arkitekter om bostadens kvaliteter. Nylander, O., S. Gromark and F. Nilsson, Chalmers arkitektur
Book chapter
2007
Studier i motståndets estetiska former, rec. Maria Hellström, 2006, Steal this place [diss.]
Sten Gromark
Arkitektur (3)
Magazine article
2007
The aesthetics of situations of becoming or the anaesthetics of stunning spectacles. /Hilkka Lehtonen minnesskrift 2007/
Sten Gromark
Prospektûs. Kirjotuksia kaupungista ja suunnittelusta/ Ilmonen, M., P. Lehtovuori and T. Pakarinen. Helsinki, HUT YTK C63.
Book chapter
2007
Situations of Urban Architecture as Cultural Explorations
Sten Gromark
Between Research and Practice, Dublin, EAAE/ARCC
Conference contribution
2007
Bostadens rum. Chalmersarkitekter om bostadens kvalitéer
Ola Nylander, Sten Gromark, Fredrik Nilsson et al
Book
2007
Extreme housing : La cité manifeste, Mulhouse 2005
Sten Gromark
Paper presented to CIB W69 Conference Communities and the Frontiers of Housing. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elisabeth South Africa
Paper in proceedings
2006
Guy Debord och Situationens politiska estetik
Sten Gromark
GROMARK, S. and F. NILSSON. Utforskande arkitektur - situationer i nutida arkitektur [Eng. Exploring architecture - Situations of Contemporary Architecture]. Stockholm, axl books pp: 64-105., p. 64-105
Book chapter
2006
Om modet att utforska
Sten Gromark, Fredrik Nilsson
Utforskande arkitektur. Situationer i nutida arkitektur, p. 21-29
Book chapter
2006
Situationer av Arkitektur. Arkitekturprojektets filosofi: Makt, Begär och Situation
Sten Gromark
Utforskande Arkitektur, p. 31-64
Book chapter
2005
Situations of urban architecture as cultural explorations
Sten Gromark
Between Research and Practice. Dublin 2004 - Conference Proceedings / Grimes, Brendan
Paper in proceedings
2004
Situations of Urban Architecture as Cultural Explorations
Sten Gromark
Congress CATH 2004, Leeds, Bradford.
Paper in proceedings
2003
En annan bostad
Sten Gromark
Bostadspriset 2003, Sveriges Arkitekter, Svensk Byggtjänst
Magazine article
2002
"kasper salinpriset / the kasper salin prize 1998-2001 förord/preface
Sten Gromark
HULTIN, O. kasper salinpriset / the kasper salprize 1998-2001. Stockholm, Sveriges Arkitekter /Swedish Association of Architects.
Magazine article
2002
Kraftspel i urban och samhällelig förändring - En utforskande arkitektur.
Sten Gromark
Formas tidskrift Miljöforskning (4-5)
Magazine article
2001
Arkitektur som kunskapsstrategi.
Sten Gromark
Arkitekttidningen At (1), p. 18-19
Journal article
2000
Jönköpings högskola. Samspelad kvartett med dissonanser.
Sten Gromark
Arkitektur (8), p. 23-
Journal article
2000
The Singularity of Architectural Research
Sten Gromark
Research by Design Conference Book. Delft, Delft School of Architecture.
Paper in proceedings
2000
Arkitektur - forskningsfält med egenart
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning. Vol. 13 (1-2), p. 101-107
Journal article
2000
Henri Lefebvre: Ett seklets vittnesbörd
Sten Gromark
Arkitekttidningen At (1), p. 18-19
Journal article
1999
GROMARK, S., TANNINEN, T. & AMBROSE, I., Eds. (1999). Resurgence and transcendence : Assessing social consequences of the implementation of housing policies & renewal policies in Europe Proceedings from CIB W69 meeting in Göteborg june 4-8 1998.
Sten Gromark, Timo Tanninen, Ivor Ambrose
Edited book
1999
Learning from Karlskrona : Beyond Convention and Invention.
Sten Gromark
GROMARK, S., T. TANNINEN and I. AMBROSE. Resurgence and transcendence : Assessing social consequences of the implementation of housing policies & renewal policies Europe Proceedings from CIB W69 meeting in Göteborg june 4-8 1998. Göteborg, CIB W69/Chalmers School of Architecture.
Book chapter
1999
Absolut Abstraktion - Om Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Sten Gromark
Dagens Nyheter 1999-02-26
Magazine article
1999
A Crucial Moment of Transgression : Henri Lefebvre and the Radical Metamorphosis of Every Day Life in the City.
Sten Gromark
Nordisk Arkitekturforskning (4)
Journal article
1998
Laurent Beaudouin: Ljuset är i arkitekturen förkroppsligad materia.
Sten Gromark
Arkitektur (5), p. 28-35
Journal article
1998
Arkitektur - ett samhälles själsliga tillstånd i sten och bruk…Om två aktuella tolkningar av nutida arkitektur
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning (4)
Magazine article
1998
Stumholmen - une nouvelle vision suédoise: Le projet de rédeveloppement urbain de Stumholmen, Suède (EuroCultures)
Sten Gromark
La Revue Générale. Vol. 133 (1), p. 37-47
Journal article
1997
Arkitektur speglar samhällets kulturella tillstånd.
Sten Gromark
Byggforskning. Vol. 5 (97), p. 38-39
Magazine article
1997
Det stora blå : Henri Ciriani.
Sten Gromark, Christer Malmström
GöteborgsPosten Gränslöst 3 december 1997
Magazine article
1996
A Balanced Conception of Modernity : The Case of Stumholmen
Sten Gromark
ENHR/SBI Housing Research International Conference, Helsingör august 1996 & CIB W69 Housing Sociology meeting Paris, september 1996, Helsingör & Paris.
Paper in proceedings
1996
Korrugerad plast - ger himmelsk transparens i ny holländsk arkitektur
Sten Gromark, Fredrik Nilsson
Göteborgs-Posten (1 oktober)
Magazine article
1996
Hus som historisk handling
Sten Gromark, Fredrik Nilsson
Göteborgs-Posten (21 februari)
Magazine article
1996
Les architectes, acteurs du redéveloppement des formes urbaines dans les municipalités. Projet de Recherche internationale fondée par Euroconception. Paris
Michel Conan, Sten Gromark
Report
1996
Brief Commentary to Hélène Vacher's article Henri Prost: The Moroccan Experience
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning (3)
Journal article
1995
Beyond Modernism: The Prospects of Amodernism: New concepts, new ethics, new aesthetics in architecture and urban planning - on the threshold of a dis-continuity?
Sten Gromark
International symposium in Aarhus School of Architecture, the City as Architecture, april 1994" in ALLEN, J., I. AMBROSE and BRINK. Making them meet - Policy, design, management, satisfaction, SBI/CIB, Hörsholm, Denmark & CIB-publication 176.
Paper in proceedings
1995
Les empires s'écroulent, les états changent de visage...mais les villes et les régions subsistent et demeurent toujours...Göteborg - ville de quartiers décentralisée: Projet ambigu de démocratie et de culture locale
Sten Gromark
BERNFELD, D. La Metropole dans son Hinterland: La Reconquete de la ville et de sa région. IIIème Colloque européen : EuroCultures Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie, 15-21 mai 1994. Bruxelles, ISA Saint-Luc.
Book chapter
1994
Belleville, en fransk aptitretare. Arkitekturskolan Belleville i Paris
Sten Gromark, Catharina Dyrssen, Christer Malmström
Arkitektur (5), p. 30-35
Magazine article
1993
Projets de sauvegarde du patrimoine liés au développement social et culturel en Suède
Sten Gromark
IIème Colloque EuroCulture & Conseil de l'Europe à Coimbra, Portugal, november 1993, Ecole d'Architecture St-Luc, Bruxelles.
Paper in proceedings
1992
Med arkitektur...Befria eller Beslå...? Ett modernismens dilemma.
Sten Gromark
Nordisk arkitekturforskning (2), p. 77-94
Journal article
1990
Experiment, Fara, Erfarenhet. En tidning om Experimentet och Faran. Om Erfarenheten. Rapport från en seminarieserie om experimentbyggande. . ByACTH 1990:1
Sten Gromark, Claes Caldenby, Michael Eden
Edited book
1989
Goteborg - Stacken, La fourmiliere La vie communautaire à la suédoise
Sten Gromark, Claes Caldenby, Åsa Walldén
Pro Fribourg (81)
Journal article
1987
Fängslande Arkitektur. Om den disciplinära boplatsens födelse i franskt 1800-tal. Reflektioner kring arkitekturens betydelse och modernismens europeiska förhistoria.
Sten Gromark
Book
1986
Den svenska scenen. Ur den post-funktionalistiska vilsenheten mot en poetisk modernism?
Sten Gromark
Blöd By (41), p. 26-33
Journal article
1985
Stadsgestaltningens renässans - en fråga om stadens arkitektur som ett socialt projekt?
Sten Gromark
plan (2/3)
Journal article
1985
Bostadssocial, arkitektonisk och byggnadsteknisk förnyelse. Experimentbyggande i Frankrike 1971-1984.
Sten Gromark, Jacques Öhlund
Report
1984
Das Kollektivwohnhaus der Teleskopgatan in Göteborg. Eine alternative Wohnform, begründet auf Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Sten Gromark
BRECH, J. and H. G. SCHWENZER. Wer senkt die Wohnkosten? Darmstadt, Verlag für Wissenschaftliche Publikationen.
Book chapter
1984
Boendegemenskap som drivkraft
Sten Gromark
GALTUNG, J. and M. FRIBERG. Rörelserna. Stockholm, Akademilitteratur.
Book chapter
1983
Autentisk Arkitektur med en inledande essä med titeln Bostadsfrågan som en Arkitekturfråga
Sten Gromark
Magasin Tessin (2/3)
Journal article
1983
Boendegemenskap. En kritisk granskning av dess värden, villkor och förutsättningar samt exempel på praktisk tillämpning i ett västeuropeiskt sammanhang.
Sten Gromark
Doctoral thesis
1982
Henri Lefebvre - Vardagligheten och Staden, efterord, i Staden som Rättighet.
Sten Gromark
Book
1979
Från Produktionens Rum till Rummets Produktion.
Sten Gromark
Häften för Kritiska Studier (1)
Journal article
1979
Att bygga, bo och förvalta - gemensamt! Exempel från Frankrike
Sten Gromark
Att Bo (4)
Magazine article
1978
Att ge rum för gemenskap. Samfällighet eller socialt tomrum. En studie kring den lokala gemenskapens villkor i stadslandskapet.
Sten Gromark, Harald Starke
Report
Showing 5 research projects
2013–2019
Integrative Ways of Residing: Health and Quality of Residence Architectural Inventions for Dwelling, Ageing and Healthcaring AIDAH
Sten Gromark
Building Design
Hanna Morichetto
Building Design
Roger Ulrich
Building Design
Marie Strid
Building Design
Elizabeth Marcheschi
Building Design
Ola Nylander
Building Design
Saga Karlsson
Building Design
Charlotta Thodelius
Building Design
Elke Miedema
Building Design
Maria Berezecka Mårtensson
Building Design
Peter Fröst
Building Design
Inga Malmqvist
Building Design
Anna Braide
Building Design
Cecilia Pettersson
Building Design
Göran Lindahl
Construction Management
Formas
2012–2013
Architectures and Philosophies in Turmoil - The Case of France Post 68
Sten Gromark
Building Design
Formas
2012–2012
Architecture in Effect - The Becoming of Residential Identities
Sten Gromark
Building Design
Formas
2011–2015
Architecture in Effect: Rethinking the Social in Architecture
Sten Gromark
Building Design
Formas
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