Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994
Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic's Award 2023

Architecture and Retrenchment
explores the 'neoliberal turban' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.

There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous “Swedish Model” and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.

With close feminist analysis running throughout – and drawing from oral histories, witness seminars, and participatory workshops – Architecture and Retrenchment provides an original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.

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Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994
Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic's Award 2023

Architecture and Retrenchment
explores the 'neoliberal turban' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.

There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous “Swedish Model” and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.

With close feminist analysis running throughout – and drawing from oral histories, witness seminars, and participatory workshops – Architecture and Retrenchment provides an original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.

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Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994

Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994

by Helena Mattsson
Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994

Architecture and Retrenchment: Neoliberalization of the Swedish Model across Aesthetics and Space, 1968-1994

by Helena Mattsson

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Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic's Award 2023

Architecture and Retrenchment
explores the 'neoliberal turban' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.

There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous “Swedish Model” and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.

With close feminist analysis running throughout – and drawing from oral histories, witness seminars, and participatory workshops – Architecture and Retrenchment provides an original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350365681
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/27/2024
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Helena Mattsson is Professor in History and Theory and Head of Department at KTH School of Architecture.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Next Supermodel
Site 1: The Model (1968)
Site 2: The Suburb (1968)
Theme: Corporatism
Site 3: The Collective House (1935–1993)
Theme: Human Capital
Site 4: The Globe(1982–1989)
Theme: The Code
Site 5: The Postmodern Housing Area (1981–1987)
Theme: Emancipations
Site 6: The Renewal (1988–1993)
Epilogue: Elephant & Castle

References
Index

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