Since their breakthrough in the mid 1980s Wingårdhs have been Sweden’s leading architects. They have proved constant success in innovation and evolution, while main- taining a deeply rooted pragmatic and humanistic Nordic tradition in which embracing the resources is key.

‘Our buildings are based on responsiveness. It’s a different approach, a unique approach,’ says Gert Wingårdh. ‘They deal with Lean Architecture, a style of architecture which avoids excesses and does as it should, contributing to and developing the foundation of societies,’ writes the German architecture critic Dirk Meyhöfer in one of the book’s essays.

Since their breakthrough in the mid 1980s Wingårdhs have been Sweden’s leading architects. They have proved constant success in innovation and evolution, while main- taining a deeply rooted pragmatic and humanistic Nordic tradition in which embracing the resources is key.

‘Our buildings are based on responsiveness. It’s a different approach, a unique approach,’ says Gert Wingårdh. ‘They deal with Lean Architecture, a style of architecture which avoids excesses and does as it should, contributing to and developing the foundation of societies,’ writes the German architecture critic Dirk Meyhöfer in one of the book’s essays.

With texts by: Gert Wingårdh, Bjarke Ingels, Dirk Meyhöfer