The ArkDes library. Photo by Emma Fredriksson.
Emma Fredriksson

Library and collections

Welcome to the library and collections at ArkDes! Browse Sweden’s greatest architecture collection and borrow books on architecture and design.

Leonie Geisendorf, Gunnar Asplund and Ralph Erskine are just three of around 600 architects represented in the ArkDes collection.

The collection currently comprises around four million objects, books, journals, models, photographs and drawings that cover Swedish architecture from the 1850s up to present day, with an emphasis on the first half of the 20th century. The collection is constantly growing with new acquisitions.

The library is home to books and journals. Some of the books were once the property of Sweden’s most famous architects, such as Sven Markelius, Sigurd Lewerentz and Uno Åhrén.

ArkDes library closed for reconstruction 25.08.2023 – 13.06.2024

bibliotek@arkdes.se

2023-24

Closing of the library and research services

ArkDes will close for renovation on August 28, 2023 in order to reopen on June 14, 2024 as a transformed ArkDes in the old premises on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. This means that both the library and research service will be closed during the renovation period.

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Our library

You can search for the books offered by ArkDes via Libris, a national search service with information on titles from Swedish university, college and research libraries and some twenty public libraries.

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Our collection

The collection is available to all. Parts of the ArkDes collection are available online and can be searched for digitally. You can start out by searching in our databases.