Shadows of the South Venetian fragments from Ragnar travelogue

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Shadows of the South
Venetian fragments from Ragnar
Chiara Monterumisi
Ph.D. candidate
Alma Mater Studiorum. University of Bologna
DA. Department of Architecture
travelogue
PAUL CLEMEN
Thus in the Stockholm City Hall we meet shadows from the great municipal edificies of the whole Europe:
but in the end all these are combined, enganced and surpassed by the force of this will to express a modern way of thinking
in art.
in Johnny Roosval, Stockholms stadshus vid dess invigning midsommarafton 1923, AB G. Tisells tekn. Förlag, Stockholm 1923
Ragnar Östberg, South portico of the City Hall, 1913
© Stockholm stadsarkivet
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Venice 1914
© Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet
From E. Cornell, Ragnar Östberg. Svenskt arkitekt, 1965
RAGNAR ÖSTBERG
1896-1899
TYSKLAND
FRANKRIKE
ITALIEN
Berlin
Dresden
Praha
München
Sydtyskland
Paris
Reims
Campaigne
Pierrefonds
Amiens
Beauvois
Rouen
Charteres
Blois
Tours
Caen
Vire
Mont St. Michel
Dinan
Normandie
Bretagne
Ploërmel
Sérent
Auray
Angers
Chinon
Loches
Amboise
Paris
Avignon
Nimes
Arles
Marseilles
Palermo
Segesta
Selinunte
Agrigento
Siracusa
Taormina
Napoli
Paestum
Amalfi
Pompei
Anacapri
Roma
Viterbo
Perugia
Orvieto
Todi
Assisi
Chiusi
Siena
Firenze
Pistoia
Lucca
Pisa
Prato
Pistoia
Parma
Piacenza
Milano
Bergamo
Brescia
Vicenza
VENEZIA
Padova
Verona
Mantova
Bologna
Imola
Faenza
Ferrara
Cesena
Ravenna
Firenze
Roma
Brindisi
GREKLAND
BELGIEN
ENGLAND
SPANIEN
Athene
Patras
Olympia
Korint
Egina
Eleuisis
Brussel
Gent
Brugge
London
Windsor
Eton
Oxford
Northleach
Barford
Fairford
Hampnett
Iffley
Minstrlovell
Bristol
Cambridge
Peterborough
Lincoln
York
Durnham
Irún
Burgos
Salamanca
Avila
Madrid
Toledo
Cordoba
Sevilla
Paris
October 1897
© Kungliga Akademien för de fria Konsterna
© Kungliga Akademien för de fria Konsterna
© Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet
VENICE
Accademia di San Giorgio
San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
San Giovanni e Paolo
San Marco
Facades decoration and reliefs
San Giorgio
Mosaics
Sculptures
Museo civico
Palazzo Loredan
Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Italien: spredte studier og rejseskitser, 1904
San Zaccaria
R. Östberg, Sketch of Piazzetta pattern, 1913
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
R. Östberg, Sketch of pavement parterre, 1913 1914 1921
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
Map of Venice, 1500
© Museo Correr, Venezia
Map of Stockholm, 1640
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
. THE QUEEN OF LAKE MÄLAREN
R. Östberg, Sketches about islands evolution in Stockholm throughout the centuries
in En arkitekt antecknigar. Bilder och verk av författaren, 1928 (Eng. trans.. Notes of an architect. Drawings and projects of the author)
OLAUS MAGNUS ,
, ROME 1544
Stockholm is of course is in the midst of the water as Venice, and it is well demonstrated how both of them are
built on wooden logs...
JAKOB ZIEGLER,
1532
city and capital of Sweden, is fortified by nature and art. It lies in the middle of the lake,
such as Venice from which it gets its name, inasmuch as the
piles or logs
ERIK DAHLBERG,
1698-1703, VOLUME I
-known and royal Swedish metropolis, rose up in the Svealand and was built in that portion of land
between Baltic sea and Lake Mälaren
inhabitated
But as the city of Venice, it is composed of many islands, some of them
BAEDECKER,
, 1878
The situation of the town on islands, on a plain , and on rocky hills , surrounded by water and islands in almost every
direction, is exceedingly picturesque. Stockholm has therefore not inaptly been called the ' Venice of the
North', and has sometimes been compared with Genua also ; but no such comparison can convey an adequate idea of
the place, which differs in many respects from all
, STOCKHOLM 1909
RAGNAR JOSEPHSON,
1500, Stockholm was named the
IN
, 1923
the lagoon city gave just a few designing
references to his admirer Scandinavian. Recently, though, the placement on the water has inspired a couple of projects in
Stockholm. So, the Italian lagoon city has become a rare and valuable jewel for all its Scandinavian admirers. The
National Museum of Stüler and Bolinder villa of Zettervall hark back those Venetian buildings reflect their marble splendor
on the streams of the Grand Canal, as well as Rosenbad palace of Boberg with loggia faces to the water is clearly influenced
by the Venetian style. But only the Stockholm City Hall, the nostalgia and desire of Venice were really satisfied.
1901 and 1909 | TRADITION AS AN EXPRESSIVE ANTOLOGY FOR A REFOUNDATION OF NATIONAL
ARCHITECTURE
1901
continues to erect its buildings
without harmony and appropriateness,
freed from any artistic ostentation, and so
not independent of foreign language, they
will have to speak again the language of
our Swedish past culture .
1909
The cosmopolitan character of the
19th century brought to Sweden, perhaps
in a greater degree than to other civilized
nations, a mixture of historic style [ ]
In our country, as in many other lands,
the excessive amount of foreign material
has prevented the development of a
uniform national type of architecture.
PAUL CLEMEN
Stockholm City has often been called «the Venice of the North»; but it is not till now this description has
become fact. The Piazzetta is to be found in the garden of the City Hall. The open colonnade of the southern facade
carries
thoughts to Venice, but more Palazzo Correr than
in Johnny Roosval, Stockholms stadshus vid dess invigning midsommarafton 1923, AB G. Tisells tekn. Förlag, Stockholm 1923
E.G. ASPLUND,
, IN
, N 49, 1919
[Eng. trans. Another proposal for resolving the area of railway station]
.. Klara Sjö has a great potential to become one of the most beautiful parts of the capital, his "Grand Canal"
C. JOHANSSON,
, IN
[Eng. trans.
, N 49, 1919
]
... The West Wing ends with Nämndshuset and city hall with its towers. One would be almost tempted to make a comparison
between Riddarholmen and the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in front Piazzetta in Venice ...
AND THE «WATER SQUARE»
Doge
Ph. author
loggiato frames the view of the Isola di San Giorgio
G. W. Cronquist, A view of Riddarholmen from the South portico of the
Stockholm City Hall, 1934
© Stockholm Stadsarkiv
STROLLING ALONG THE STREETS OF
Ragnar Östberg, Photographs of Riddarholmen church
© Arkitektur och designcentrum arkivet
Ragnar Östberg, Sketch of pavement pattern for City Hall courtyard , 1918
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
FLOATING THE
: ARCHITECTURAL
Fabbriche nuove
Venetian Palaces
Procuratio nuove and Doge palace
Isola di San Giorgio
STOCKHOLM NÄMNDHUSET, 1909-1940
1909
1913
1930
1933
1936
1939
1940
1940
Siteplan of the Diplomatstaden, 1919
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
Designing sketch, 1912
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
Ground floor Stadshuset, December 1916
Plan of the Piazza di San Marco in L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le
© Arkitektur ochdesigncentrum,
fabbriche e i monumenti cospicui di Venezia, 1838-1840
1909
View of the model
in Arkitektur, n 41, 1911
1930
View from the Stockholm City Hall entrance
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
1939
R. Östberg, Photomontage
© Arkitektur -ochdesigncentrum
1940
Sketch
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
in L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le fabbriche e i monumenti cospicui di Venezia, 1838-1840
J. Sansovino, Fabbriche nuove di Rialto, Venezia
1554-1556
1909
1930
1939
1940
VILLA GEBER, 1911-1913
: PROVING PROJECT
Ground floor, 1912
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
Scketches about the Stockholm Stadshuset entrance, August 1909
© Stockholms Stadsarkivet
Estract of Carta di Venezia. Canal Grande, 1500
Panorama of the Diplomatstaden, 1925
© Stockholms Stadsarkiv
A VENETIAN PALACE ALONG THE FRESH MÄLAREN STREAMS
Villa Geber, 1913
Diplomatstaden, 1921
© Stockholm Stadsarkivet
© Kungliga biblioteket
PRIENE, III-II CENTURY B.C.
POMPEI, II CENTURY B.C.
The essence of the villa is to overlook the city from a distant slope outside the walls.
J. Ackerman
M. SANMICHELI,
F. Ronzani e G. Luciolli, Le fabbriche civili, ecclesiastiche e militari di Michele Sanmicheli, 1823
Ragnar Östberg, villa Geber, 1913
JACOPO SANSOVINO,
AND
L. Cicognara, A. Diedo e G. Selva, Le fabbriche e
Hypothetical plan of the palace, in M. Tafuri, Ricerca
i monumenti cospicui di Venezia, 1838-1840
del Rinascimento. Principi, città, architetti, 1992)
Ragnar Östberg, villa Geber, 1913
ANDREA PALLADIO,
, 1570
, II libro, Venezia 1570
VENETIAN ECHOES IN DECORATIVE APPARATUS
Courtyard, 1918
Courtyard, 1927
© C. G. Rosenberg
© C. G. Rosenberg
Palazzo Priuli a San Severo, Venice
TESSIN THE YOUNGER,
Drawings and engravings taken from O.Sirén, Tessinska palatset,
in Ord och Bild 1913
1694-1700
simile Renaissance artist dressing,
though Swedish cloths...
in Hakon Ahlberg, Ragnar Östberg på avstånd , in Arkitektu, 1965 (Eng. trans. Ragnar Östberg from distance )
Ragnar Östberg, 1915
© Arkitektur -och designcentrum
Francesco Sansovino, Venetia città nobilissima et singolare, 1581
"Each city lives on its own memories... The Mediterranean cities do so more than
their own shadows.
Venice has become an ide
itself, sometimes tending to blend together or react against one another. Venice and that other Venice stand side by side or
inside each other. But each is vital to the other, neither can survive alone, both are Venice and the Serenissima,
image and simulacrum, history and myth
, 2003