Title & Author:

Swedish modernism : architecture, consumption and the welfare state / edited by Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein.

Publication:

London : Black Dog, 2010.

Description:

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Constructing the welfare state. In search of the Swedish model : contested historiography / Urban Lundberg and Mattias Tydén ; Pippi Longstocking : the autonomous child and the moral logic of the Swedish welfare state / Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh ; The happy 30s : a short story of social engineering and gender order in Sweden / Yvonne Hirdman -- Consumers and spectacles. Designing the reasonable consumer : standardisation and personalisation in Swedish functionalism / Helena Mattsson ; Mass customisation : consumers and other subjects / Reinhold Martin ; Designing 'taste' : domestic consumption, modernism and modernity / Penny Sparke ; The exhibition modern leisure as a site of governmentality / Ylva Habel ; The vernacular on display : Skansen Open-air Museum in 1930s Stockholm / Thordis Arrhenius -- Towards a genealogy of modern architecture. Building the utopia of the everyday / Eva Rudberg ; Footprints in the snow : power, knowledge, and subjectivity in German and Swedish architectural discourse on needs, 1920s to 1950s / David Kuchenbuch -- Architecture and the consumer paradigm in the mid-twentieth century / Joan Ockman ; A family affair : Swedish modernism and the administering of life / Sven-Olov Wallenstein.

Summary:

"This book is a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and attempts to highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation."--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781906155988 (pbk.)
1906155984 (pbk.)

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Social aspects Sweden.
Modern movement (Architecture) Political aspects Sweden.
Welfare state Sweden.
Architecture and society Sweden History 20th century.
Architecture and state Sweden History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Aspect social Suède.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Aspect politique Suède.
État providence Suède.
Architecture et société Suède Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Suède Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and state.
Welfare state.
Wohlfahrtsstaat.
Konsumgesellschaft.
Architektur.
Arkitektur och samhälle Sverige.
Arkitektur historia Sverige 1900-talet.
Modernism (arkitektur) Sverige.
Arkitekturteori.
Sweden.
Schweden.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mattsson, Helena, 1965-
Wallenstein, Sven-Olov.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269981
Call No.: BIB 202497
Status: Available