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Searching for Svea Rike
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Architecture.
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

2030 marks the 100-year anniversary of The Stockholm Exhibition 1930 and what is often described as an important breakthrough of modernism in Sweden. The “special exhibition” Svea Rike - with the task of strengthening the national identity- has not been given the same attention as other exhibition halls in The Stockholm Exhibition in architectural history. Svea Rike was not part of the initial plans of The Stockholm Exhibition 1930 and is therefore missing in the early and most published plans and models of the exhibition. Exterior and interior photographs of the special exhibition disclose parts of Svea Rike but it’s never entirely uncovered. 

In the Svea Rike pavilion at The Stockholm Exhibition 1930 the development of Sweden was shown in a full picture and near the entrance, Herman Lundborg, Head of the State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala presented his work on typical racial descriptions and the significance of heritage through photographs, sculptures, and illustration. To see the building Svea Rike is also to see how race and modernity are interconnected and central in the history.

Through careful research into archives and collections, examining drawings, photographs, objects, correspondence and other texts, this project aims to find out what the building Svea Rike looked like. Through reading, investigating, approximating, drawing, and model, information is overlapped and a reconstruction of Svea Rike offers a way to see the Stockholm Exhibition from the building Svea Rike. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022.
Series
TRITA-ABE-MBT ; 22140
Keywords [en]
The Stockholm Exhibition 1930, Stockholmsutställningen 1930, Svea Rike, Swedish national identity, State Institute for Racial Biology, archive, photography, Asplund
National Category
Architecture
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316514OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316514DiVA, id: diva2:1688762
Subject / course
Architecture
Educational program
Master of Architecture - Architecture
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Available from: 2022-08-19 Created: 2022-08-19 Last updated: 2022-08-30Bibliographically approved

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