Architecture and the Swedish welfare state

Three architectural competitions that innovated space for dependent and frail older people

Bibliographic Data

ID11201447
AuthorsJonas Andersson (0000-0002-6307-1960, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, corresponding author), JONAS E ANDERSSON
Year2015
Volume35
Issue4
Pages837-864
Publication date2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x14000014
OpenAlexW2135150513
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited9

In 2012, three architectural competitions were held as part of the strategic programme ‘ Living Well, Growing Old’, launched by the Swedish government in 2010. The intention was to use the innovative quality of the architectural competition in order to conceive future-oriented built environments for the ageing Swedish society. In Sweden, several architectural competitions with a focus on space for dependent and frail older people have been organised over the past century. Architectural design has been incorporated into reforms for social care of older people. This study focuses on the relationship between architecture and socio-political visions in three architectural competitions, realised in 1907, 1948 and 1979. The study demonstrates that architectural competitions within this field are more than a list of functional and spatial requirements for architects to respect. Instead, they are socio-political statements that define spatial frameworks within an ideological view on how ethically to provide care for dependent and frail older people in a welfare regime

Competition (biology) · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Vision · Visual arts · Welfare · Aging and Gerontology Research · Architecture · Computer Science · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Gerontology

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