Since their breakthrough in the mid 1980s Wingårdhs Architects have been Sweden's leading architects. They have proved constant success in innovation and evolution, while maintaining a deeply rooted pragmatic and humanistic Nordic tradition in which embracing the resources is key. 'Our buildings are based on responsiveness. It's a different approach, a unique approach, ' says Gert Wingårdh. 'They deal with Lean Architecture, a style of architecture which avoids excesses and does as it should, contributing to and developing the foundation of societies, ' writes the German architecture critic Dirk Meyhöfer in one of the book's essays.