Johan Celsing: Buildings, Texts

Johan Celsing is a renowned Swedish architect who has created a diverse body of work, including housing, public institutions, and churches. This book features his designs, including built and unrealized projects, with essays by architects, educators, and critics.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 17 January 2022
Publisher: Park Books

One of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, Johan Celsing, has created a diverse body of work that spans from housing to public institutions such as museums, libraries, and churches. All of it is united by an intense and realistic engagement with the craft of making buildings.

Johan Celsing: Buildings, Texts is the first book to comprehensively collect Celsing's designs. It features both built and unrealized projects through working drawings, sketches, watercolors, and images of models, as well as new photographs by London-based photographer Ioana Marinescu. In addition to more than seven hundred illustrations, the buildings are discussed in essays by architects, educators, and critics, including Wilfried Wang, Claes Caldenby, Katarina Rundgren, and Elizabeth Hatz. The book also offers a selection of Johan Celsing's own writings.

Celsing's work is characterized by a commitment to the craft of building, and his designs are marked by a sense of realism and attention to detail. He has worked on a wide range of projects, from small residential buildings to large public institutions, and his work has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades.

Johan Celsing: Buildings, Texts is a valuable resource for architects, students, and anyone interested in the art of building. It provides a comprehensive collection of Celsing's designs, along with essays by leading experts in the field, and offers a glimpse into the mind of one of Sweden's most talented architects.

Weight: 1846g
Dimension: 311 x 316 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783038601708