In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to
the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious
programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that
aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of
these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns,
cultural and leisure centres - involved not just construction but a
new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare
objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and
debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was
profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving
centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but
worldwide. This is the first book to explore the architecture of
the welfare state in Western Europe from an international
perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book
explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation
and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice.
Themes include: the role of the built environment in the welfare
state as a political project the colonial dimension of European
welfare state architecture and its 'export' to Africa and Asia the
role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and
economic growth the picture of the collective produced by welfare
state architecture the role of architectural innovation in the
welfare state the role of the architect, as opposed to construction
companies and others, in determining what was built the
relationship between architectural and social theory the role of
internal institutional critique and the counterculture.
Contributors include: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock,
Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline
Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper,
Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and
Dirk van den Heuvel.
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