Architecture and Welfare : Scandinavian Perspectives （2025. 392 S. 85 b/w and 99 col. ill., 6 b/w ld. 240 mm）

Herausgegeben:Arrhenius, Thordis/ Braae, Ellen/ Ruud, Guttorm

BIRKHÄUSER BERLIN（2025発売）

BIRKHÄUSER BERLIN（2025発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783035627961

Full 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, and
democracy, 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