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The Stockholm Exhibition (in Swedish, Stockholmsutställningen) was an exhibition held in 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden,that had a great impact on the architectural styles known as Functionalism and International Style.

The fair was conducted by the City of Stockholm and theSvenska Slöjdföreningen

(which has evolved into the existingorganization, Swedish Form) art society. The art historian and leader of the Svenska Slöjdföreningen, Gregor Paulsson, wasthe intellectual leader of the fair, inspired, after a visit to the 1927 Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, to organize a similar eventfor Stockholm.

It took place from May through September 1930, on the southern portion of the Djurgården recreation area in eastern-centralStockholm, and entertained about four million visitors.

Swedish artists, craftsmen and companies showed their latest products, particularly the glass producer Orrefors Glasbruk.Many of the available images were taken by the pioneering photographer W. Gustaf Cronquist, and were published bySwedish Form.

The exhibition's slogan was: Acceptera!, or Accept!, literally a plea for acceptance of functionalism, standardization, andmass production as a cultural change. The effort to persuade S wedish citizens of the benefits of a modernized lifestyleincluded serving mass-produced food.

Contents

1 Architecture

2 Impact3 Images4 References

Architecture

Coordinates: 5 9°19′57″N 18°06′57″E

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view of the Paradise Restaurant

The fair was significant in the history of architecture in Stockholm, firmly establishing functionalismas the dominant architectural style in Sweden.

The two head architects were Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. Through the 1920s Asplundhad been one of the principal figures of the Neo-Classicist Swedish Grace style. But here, in 1930,Asplund's style takes a dramatic turn into stripped-down functionalism. Especially conspicuous wasthe Paradise Cafe and the Entry Pavilion, with its exposed steel frame, airy expanses of glass, anddramatically lit at night. Above the fair a towering advertising mast stood with an electrically litversion of Lewerentz's "Flying V" logo.

Le Corbusier had been invited to contribute to the fair, but declined.

The fair also showcased new housing alternatives, bright and hygienic apartments with ample spacefor all members of the family. Swedish architects involved in the Housing Exhibition included SvenMarkelius, Paul Hedqvist, Nils Ahrbom, Helge Zimdal, and Uno Åhrén. Some critics found thearchitecture too crisp and cold to consider living with permanently. Three of the fair's architectswere, in the following year, co-authors of the Acceptera! functionalist manifesto.

Alvar Aalto, describing the exhibition for the Finnish press, wrote, "The exhibition speaks out for oyful and spontaneous everyday life. And consistently propagates a healthy and unpretentious

lifestyle based on economic realities."

Impact

All of the fair buildings were temporary. But the fair's ideas lived on and influenced the shape of Swedish housing for years to come.

As early as 1931 one of the exhibition architects, Uno Åhrén, won the commission of the terraced settlement in North Ängby in Bromma, and in the

outskirts of Stockholm, Traneberg (1937–38) and Hammarbyhöjden (1938), all apartments for large families. All houses had central heating; allapartments had a private bath / toilet and running hot and cold water, a fully equipped kitchen and a balcony. Large windows let light and air into theflats, the stairwell, there was even a rubbish chute, an adjoining greenspace, and a playground.

The largest and finest-preserved collection of early functionalist housing is the residential settlement Södra Ängby, Bromma. Södra Ängby consists of about 500 single-family homes during the years 1933 to 1939, all in the functionalist style. One of the earliest examples was the house architect SvenMarkelius built for himself at Nockeby 1930–31.

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Villa Ängbyhöjden No.30, Södra Ängby,

constructed 1938

These housing districts were directly influenced by the 1930 fair, were designed by the same architects, andwere built around cooperative Social Democrats values. Social housing was, in turn, were a significantelement in the development of the Swedish idea of Folkhemmet.

Åhrén was to collaborate with the sociologist, reformer and Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal from 1932though 1935 on a social housing commission, and in 1934 they co-authored The Housing Question as aSocial Planning Problem, a work that would prove influential in the structuring of the Social DemocraticSwedish society. Markelius and the Swedish reformer Alva Myrdal collaborated on a design for a 57-unitcommunal-living Collective House in the center of Stockholm, in 1935. and Prime Minister Per AlbinHansson, who coined the word Folkhemmet, himself moved into an Åhrén-designed functionalist house in1936.

Images

Poster with Lewerentz's"Winged V" emblem

Night view, lakeside

Functionalist interior space, type 4 dwelling

Restaurant crowd

Photo by Gustaf Cronquist

Another view of theParadise Restaurant

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Poster in English

References

Modern Architecture Since 1900, CurtisThe Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. FordHistorical photos (Stockholm City Museum, in Swedish) (http://www.stockholmskallan.se/index.php?

sokning=1&action=visaLista&fritext=Stockholmsutst%E4llningen+1930)online book review of The Stockholm Exhibition 1930: Modernism's Breakthrough in Swedish Architecture, by Eva Rudburg(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_/ai_59177302)

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