Where to go from here

Museums, art galleries, buildings to visit, journals, websites, archives and YouTube channels for anyone who wants to go further. The focus is on Sweden and the Nordic countries.

Architecture museums

ArkDes (Stockholm): Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design on Skeppsholmen, with collections of drawings, models and photographs from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Nasjonalmuseet – Arkitektur (Oslo): The architecture department of Norway’s National Museum, housed in a building by Christian Heinrich Grosch with an extension by Sverre Fehn.
Dansk Arkitektur Center (Köpenhamn): Denmark’s centre for architecture in BLOX on the Copenhagen waterfront, with exhibitions on architecture and urban development.
Alvar Aalto-museet (Jyväskylä): A museum in Jyväskylä on Alvar Aalto’s life and work, in a building designed by Aalto himself. Several of his buildings can be visited from here.
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt): Germany’s architecture museum on the Main, known for its yearbooks and its exhibitions on both history and contemporary work.
Bauhaus Dessau (Dessau): The Bauhaus building and the Masters’ Houses in Dessau, with a museum and guided tours. A World Heritage Site.
Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin): An archive and museum devoted to the history of the Bauhaus school, with collections of furniture, drawings and teaching material.
Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein): A design museum in a building by Frank Gehry, on a campus with buildings by Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, SANAA and Herzog & de Meuron.
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris): France’s great architecture museum in the Palais de Chaillot, with full-scale casts of French cathedral portals and a replica of an apartment in Le Corbusier’s Unité.
Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris): The foundation that manages Le Corbusier’s legacy, with the Maison La Roche in Paris open to visitors.
Sir John Soane's Museum (London): The architect John Soane’s home and collection, preserved as he left it in 1837 – full of antique fragments, casts and drawings.
RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects (London): The British architects’ institute, with one of the world’s largest architecture libraries and collections of drawings and photographs.
Design Museum (London): London’s museum of design and architecture in Kensington, with exhibitions on everything from chairs to cities.
Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam): The Netherlands’ institute for architecture, design and digital culture, home to the national architecture archive.
Architekturzentrum Wien (Wien): Austria’s architecture museum in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, with a permanent exhibition on 20th-century architecture.
S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum (Basel): Switzerland’s architecture museum in Basel, with exhibitions on contemporary and historical architecture.
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal): A research centre and museum in Montreal with one of the world’s foremost collections of architectural drawings and archives.
MoMA – Architecture and Design (New York): The Museum of Modern Art has one of the earliest collections of modern architecture and design; its 1932 exhibition Modern Architecture gave the International Style its name.
National Building Museum (Washington D.C.): The US museum of building, architecture and urban planning, in a gigantic hall from 1887.
Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago): Exhibitions, architecture walks and boat tours in the birthplace of the skyscraper.

Building history

Skansen (Stockholm): The world’s oldest open-air museum, founded in 1891, with houses and farmsteads from all over Sweden showing Swedish building traditions.
Nordiska museet (Stockholm): A museum of Swedish everyday life, housing and interiors, in Isak Gustaf Clason’s building from 1907.
Kulturen (Lund): An open-air museum in the centre of Lund with buildings from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, from Skåne and the rest of Sweden.
Jamtli (Östersund): An open-air museum in Östersund with farmsteads and townscapes from the 18th to the 20th century.
Hallwylska museet (Stockholm): A town palace from the 1890s with its interiors untouched since then – a rare, completely preserved home from the turn of the century.
Skissernas museum (Lund): A museum of sketches and models for public art, often linked to architecture and buildings.
Form/Design Center (Malmö): A meeting place for form, design and architecture in Malmö, with exhibitions and talks.
Maihaugen (Lillehammer): A Norwegian open-air museum in Lillehammer with farmsteads, a stave church and a residential area with houses from each decade of the 20th century.
Fölisöns friluftsmuseum (Seurasaari) (Helsingfors): An open-air museum on an island in Helsinki with Finnish farmsteads, manor settings and a wooden church.
Frilandsmuseet (Lyngby): One of the world’s largest open-air museums, with farmsteads and houses from all over Denmark and the former Danish provinces.

Buildings to visit

Skogskyrkogården (Stockholm): Asplund and Lewerentz’s cemetery in Enskede, a World Heritage Site where landscape and architecture are one. Guided tours in summer.
Stockholms stadshus (Stockholm): Ragnar Östberg’s City Hall, with guided tours of the Blue Hall, the Golden Hall and the tower.
Drottningholms slott (Ekerö): The royal family’s residence and a World Heritage Site, with a palace, a Baroque garden, an English park, the palace theatre and the Chinese Pavilion.
Skoklosters slott (Håbo): A Baroque castle on Lake Mälaren from the 1650s–1670s, with collections and an unfinished banqueting hall where the scaffolding still stands.
Tjolöholms slott (Kungsbacka): A National Romantic castle in Halland in the English Tudor style, designed by Lars Israel Wahlman and completed in 1904.
Hansestaden Visby (Gotland): The Hanseatic town with its ring wall, church ruins and medieval stone houses – a World Heritage Site to stroll through.
Villa Mairea (Noormarkku): Alvar and Aino Aalto’s villa for the Gullichsen family from 1939, one of the best-known houses of modernism. Tours by appointment.

Art galleries

Malmö Konsthall (Malmö): One of Europe’s largest art galleries, designed by Klas Anshelm in 1975 – a light, flexible space worth a visit for the building alone.
Lunds konsthall (Lund): An art gallery on Mårtenstorget in Lund, designed by Klas Anshelm in 1957, with brick and top lighting.
Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm): An art gallery in a triangular glass building by Johan Celsing from 2006 in Vasastan.
Färgfabriken (Stockholm): An art gallery and platform for architecture and urban development in an old paint factory in Liljeholmen.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk): An art museum on the Øresund where building, park and sea form a whole – one of the finest works of Danish modernism. It often shows architecture exhibitions.
Kiasma (Helsingfors): The museum of contemporary art in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl and opened in 1998.

Journals

Arkitektur: Sweden’s leading architecture journal, published since 1901, with reviews of new Swedish architecture.
RUM: A Swedish magazine on interiors, design and architecture.
Arkitekten: The magazine of Sveriges Arkitekter, on the profession, the debate and new projects.
Byggnadskultur: The journal of the Swedish Building Conservation Society, on caring for and understanding older buildings.
Kulturvärden: The National Property Board of Sweden’s magazine on palaces, churches and other buildings of cultural and historical value.
Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review: Finland’s leading architecture journal, with summaries in English.
The Architectural Review: A British journal since 1896, with criticism and essays on architecture from all over the world.
AA Files: The Architectural Association’s journal in London, with long essays on architectural history and theory.
Architectural Record: An American journal since 1891 with projects, reviews and technical features.
Architectural Digest: A magazine about interiors and homes, with extensive features on famous houses.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: The leading academic journal of architectural history, published by the Society of Architectural Historians.
Places Journal: A freely available online journal with long essays on architecture, landscape and cities.
Domus: An Italian magazine founded by Gio Ponti in 1928, covering architecture, design and art.
Casabella: An Italian architecture journal since 1928, known for its in-depth project presentations.
El Croquis: A Spanish journal in which each issue is devoted to one architect or practice, with drawings and photographs.
Detail: A German journal on construction and details, with drawings that show how buildings are put together.
Bauwelt: A German architecture journal since 1910, on building and urban planning.

Websites

Dezeen: The world’s most widely read website on architecture and design, with news every day.
ArchDaily: A large website with project presentations, plans and classic articles on famous buildings.
Divisare: A website with carefully selected photographs and drawings of new architecture.
Archnet: A digital library on architecture in the Islamic world, with images, plans and texts.
Smarthistory: Free texts and videos on the history of art and architecture, written by scholars.

Archives and organisations

Bebyggelseregistret (Riksantikvarieämbetet): The Swedish National Heritage Board’s register of culturally and historically valuable buildings and churches in Sweden, with descriptions and histories.
Riksantikvarieämbetet: The government agency for cultural heritage, with knowledge of historic environments, listed buildings and churches.
DigitaltMuseum: Swedish and Norwegian museum collections online, with many photographs of buildings and towns.
Svenska byggnadsvårdsföreningen: An association for everyone who wants to understand and care for older buildings, with advice, courses and the journal Byggnadskultur.
Sveriges Arkitekter: The architects’ trade union and professional body, which awards the Kasper Salin Prize for the best building of the year.
Arkitekturupproret: A grassroots movement that criticises modernist new building and advocates traditional architecture – a voice in the Swedish debate.
Docomomo International: An organisation for documenting and conserving the buildings of the Modern Movement, with national groups in Sweden too.
Society of Architectural Historians: An American association of architectural historians, publisher of the journal JSAH and the reference work SAH Archipedia.
Europeana: Europe’s digital cultural heritage: millions of images, drawings and documents from museums and archives.
Wikimedia Commons: Freely licensed images of buildings from all over the world – the same source as the app’s photographs.

YouTube

Stewart Hicks: An architect and teacher who explains the ideas, building types and history of architecture with sketches and models.
30X40 Design Workshop: The architect Eric Reinholdt on the architect’s work, sketching and how to think about space and form.
Dami Lee: An architect who explains, with animations, why buildings and cities look the way they do.
The B1M: Videos about major construction projects, skyscrapers and engineering around the world.
Smarthistory: Short videos in which art historians talk in front of works and buildings, from antiquity to the present day.
The Cultural Tutor: Popular essays on architecture, art and history, often about why older buildings stir our emotions.
Louisiana Channel: The Louisiana Museum’s interviews with architects, artists and writers – many of the great architects of our time talk about their work.
Architectural Digest: Tours of famous and unusual homes, and series in which architects explain buildings.
Dezeen: Short videos about new architecture and design, often featuring the architects themselves.
Not Just Bikes: On urban planning and how cities work for people, with the Netherlands as the model.
City Beautiful: Urban planning and the history of city building explained accessibly.