Successful Swedes

There are no big slums in Stockholm. And there are no flies on Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art--a reputation it once again proved last week by putting on in Manhattan one of its traveling shows, Stockholm Builds: 101 careful camera studies by Architect G. E. Kidder Smith. Stockholm's houses (over 30% of them built in the last ten years) and public buildings are the world's models--famed for intelligent modern architecture, well-planned integration, neat, modest lines. The Swedes have no great architects, no great planners: their success is the community's.

Best Swedish designs are characteristically for community projects. Examples: the Kvarnholmen cooperative industrial community, on an island outside Stock holm, with flour mills, shops, schools, managers' and workers' houses; school buildings like Paul Hedquist's clean-lined structure at Bromma {see cut) ; shrewdly angled, balconied, sun-catching apartment houses in crowded sections of Stockholm; an adroitly designed swimming pool and social center in the Vanadislunden residential section of Stockholm.

Weakest point in Swedish design: the individual house, which requires more singular treatment than Swedish architects like to be bothered with.

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