
Architecture and Welfare
Scandinavian Perspectives
Birkhäuser (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. January 2025
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-3-0356-2796-1 (ISBN)
Description
Architecture was fundamental to the realization of welfare state policy in the Nordic countries, translating democratic ideals into concrete spatial materializations. An inclusive notion of "welfare for all" was embraced by a generation of architects, landscape architects, and planners, who labored to give physical form to ideas of equality, collectivity, anddemocracy, producing a vast architectural output in Scandinavia during the postwar years. Today, however, the architectural legacy of this era is contested. Welfare for all no longer enjoys the social or political consensus it once did.This publication critically engages with this contested architectural legacy and provides a nuanced portrait of postwar welfare architecture coming to terms with a contentious past and facing an uncertain future With newly commissioned photographic work by contemporary Nordic artists Based on an interdisciplinary research project by KTH Stockholm, Oslo School of Architecture, University of Copenhagen Internationally renown contributors shed light on aspects of the relationship between architecture and welfare
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Publishing group
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
99 farbige Abbildungen, 85 s/w Abbildungen
85 b/w and 99 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1030 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0356-2796-1 (9783035627961)
Schweitzer Classification
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01/2025
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Persons
Prof. Thordis Arrhenius, School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm
Prof. Ellen Braae, Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Guttorm Ruud, Oslo School of Architecture and Design