Helena Mattsson

Swedish Modernism

Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Swedish Modernism 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Dog Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9781906155988
• ISBN-10: 1906155984
• Artikelnr.: 28217727

Autorenporträt

Reinhold Martin is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, and Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for Study of American Architecture, Columbia University. He is also partner in the firm Martin/Baxi Architects, New York. Penny Sparke is a Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London. UK Joan Ockman is Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Helena Mattsson is an architect and researcher. She is teaching at the School of Architecture/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. She is a member of the architectural collaboration Testbedstudio Stockholm, as well as of the editorial board of "Site" magazine. Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches philosophy at the University College of Sodertorn, and architectural theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, both in Stockholm, and is the editor-in-chief of "Site."