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Title:Industry & Modernism : Companies, Architecture & Identity in the Nordic & Baltic Countries During the High-Industrial Period
Series:(Studia Fennica Historica Series, 14)
Author:Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna (eds)
ISBN:9517469365 : 9789517469364
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:402
Weight: .846 Kg.
Published:Finnish Literature Society - December 2007
List Price: 23.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Northern Europe; Scandinavia: Area/regional studies


For post-war Europe, industrial production and its methods of rationalisation and modernisation were adopted as a model for societies more generally. To replace the nationalism of the 1930s that had led to a catastrophe, universal values and technologies were seen as important. Modernism in architecture was both an instrument to realise these goals and the symbol of modern society. Modernism meant technological progress, economic security, relative political stability and social equality, that is, what being European was about. In the book "Industry and Modernism", the meaning of industrial production is discussed particularly in the context of the Nordic and Baltic post-war histories. The polarities of the Cold War suppressed similarities between the two worlds such as the shared belief in the power of architecture, planning and technology to construct new societies. For many western European countries, Nordic countries represented a model of the welfare state, just as Baltic countries were seen as models within the Soviet hegemony. In the book, economic and social history is integrated with business history, architectural history, and the study of industrial heritage.

Industry and Modernism as Historical Objects of Study; The High-Industrial Period in the Nordic and Baltic Countries; Rational Planning as a Sign of Modernism; A Modern Concept of Industry within Traditional Boundaries; Conflicting Forces in Nokia Town Planning; Structural Change in the Power-Building Business; Signs of Modernism in the Architecture of Soviet Latvia between 1960-1980; Aesthetics in Modern Management; Going Countrywide -- The Case of L M Ericsson; Political Planning and Architecture; The L M Ericsson Headquarters in 1940 – Modernism Shaping Place; Planning the Plant 1945-1970; Industrial Flow and National Pride; Companies Manifesting their Identity through Architecture; Architects Realising Gösta Serlachius' Visions; in the Industrial Community of Mänttä; The Oasis of the Industrialised Countryside in Soviet Estonia; High-Industrial Society; Index.