Technology Seminar,
STOCKHOLM
SEPTEMBER 25 – 26, 2025
Docomomo ISC/Technologies seminar 2025 – Library Renovations: Exchanges between research and practice
A Docomomo Technology Seminar on Library Renovations will be take place on September 25 and 26, 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. Speakers from Sweden, Finland, and Switzerland will present different library renovation projects and recent research studies to exchange knowledge and experience between research and practice.
Presentations will be held at the Skandia Cinema and open for all to join. Topics will cover general architectural, heritage, and renovation issues, but also a broad range of technical and specific aspects related to libraries and renovation, such as lighting, acoustics, colour, and historical construction materials.
As Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library is currently closed to the general public and undergoing a major renovation period, tours of the library construction site and the Woodland Cemetry are also organized for a limited number of seminar participants who register in advance.
Seminar Organizer: Patrick Fleming, ETH Zurich and Aalto University
To register for the Seminar, please click here.
A full program is available below:
BIO SKANDIA
DROTTNINGGATAN 82
111 36 STOCKHOLM
TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR 2025
Library Renovations: Exchanges between research and practice
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PROGRAMME
Docomomo Technology
Seminar 2025
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025
09:00 – 09:30 Marcelo Rovira Torres, KTH Architecture School – Construction materials of the Stockholm Public Library
09:30 – 10:00 Patrick Fleming, Aalto University : Library Acoustics
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break and refreshments
10:30 – 11:00 Anna Bortolozzi, Stockholm University – Asplund, Aesthetics and Library Flooring
11:00 – 11:30 Anders Bergström, KTH Architecture School, Asplund’s Colours
11:30 – 12:00 Heymowski Olson Strömholm Arkitekter AB Architectural heritage of the Stockholm Public Library
BREAK
13:30 – 14:00 Thordis Arrhenius, KTH Architecture School, Asplund and Preservation
14:00 – 15:00 Christoph Gantenbein, Christ & Gantenbein, Renovating the Swiss National Library
15:00 – 15:15 Closing Remarks
17:00 – 18:45 Site Tour of Skogskyrkogårde Guided by Marcelo Rovira Torres and Eva Larson, (Registration Required)
Friday, Sept. 26, 2025
11:00 – 11:15 Patrick Fleming, Aalto University
Welcome and Introduction, Renovations, Libraries, and Asplund
11:15 – 12:15 Tapani Mustonen, arkkitehdit mustonen oy, Renovating Libraries in Vyborg and Seinäjoki, Questions and Discussion
BREAK
13:30 – 14:00 Malin Alenius, Konstfack (University of Arts, Crafts and Design), Lighting in Libraries
14:00 – 14:30 Jonas Malmberg, Finnish National Heritage Agency, Restoration of the Säynätsalo Town Hall Library
14:30 – 15:00 Anja Thedenius, Arkitema, Renovating the Stockholm Public Library
15:00 – 15:15 Panel Discussion, Closing Remarks
16:00 – 17:30 Site Tour of the Stockholm Public Library, Guided by Anja Thedenius, Marcelo Rovira Torres, Anders Bergström, HOSARK, and Patrick Fleming (Registration Required)