14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm examines the multi-unit housing approved at the height of a recent building boom (2017) in the midst of an ongoing housing shortage in the 26 municipalities that make up the Stockholm region. Here in Melbourne, we are confronted with a similar apartment construction boom in conjunction with recently announced public housing policies.

What are the demands that this architecture answers to, and what problems of its own might it be wrestling with? What forms of life does it dream of accommodating and which does it normalize, naturalize, or exclude?

In this event, local urban design and architecture professionals will join the authors of the book 14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm to discuss the lessons learned from Sweden’s phenomenal high density housing boom.

14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm includes an archive of plans from 156 projects in the Stockholm region, presenting over 600 original planning permit drawings for 337 buildings. It is a must for all architects, planners, developers, and other actors working within the housing sector, as well as students and scholars of residential architecture.