Secretary

Secretary is a Stockholm-based office for architecture. Founded in 2017 by theorist Helen Runting and architects Karin Matz and Rutger, the practice is built on a shared interest in the capacity of architecture to facilitate a dignified life at the scale of the population. Secretary designs buildings, installations, research studies, and megastructures that give form to the late welfare state in the 21st century. Their work has been shown at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (2019), the UABB Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2020), and at galleries and venues across Sweden. In 2021, Secretary published 14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm,” and started construction on “Intervallet” a 55-unit, plus-energy student housing project in mass timber, in Linköping, Sweden.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.