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Architecture and the Welfare State by Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete, Dirk van den Heuvel, Eve Blau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 dimensi

Who reads Architecture and the Welfare State?

Author

Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete, Dirk van den Heuvel, Eve Blau

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317661894

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Architecture, Art