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Architecture and Welfare

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The decades after the Second World War saw ambitious building programs to ensure social welfare. The Scandinavian countries in particular underwent an intense modernisation phase with the aim to...
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  • 05 March 2025
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The decades after the Second World War saw ambitious building programs to ensure social welfare. The Scandinavian countries in particular underwent an intense modernisation phase with the aim to distribute welfare to all. Yet, the relationship between welfare values and design in Scandinavia is anything but stable. The spatial and political legacy of post-war construction varies amongst Denmark, Sweden, and Norway and their welfare models have been changed, contested, and copied over time. This book explores how architecture, once seen as a medium for universal welfare, inclusion, and political participation, is now often associated with the opposite, such as alienation, exclusion, and segregation. The volume offers new perspectives on the history and redesign of post-war architecture and urbanity.

  • Drawing on several years of research across Scandinavia
  • Three photo essays show projects in Denmark, Norway, Sweden
  • Well-known contributors
  • With attractive photo essays on social housing in Scandinavia
  • 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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    Price: $68.99
    Pages: 328
    Publisher: Birkhäuser
    Imprint: Birkhäuser
    Publication Date: 05 March 2025
    ISBN: 9783035627961
    Format: Paperback
    BISACs: Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, City & town planning: architectural aspects, Social services and welfare, criminology
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    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