Uno Emrik Åhrén was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated as an architect at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1918. He was City Planning Manager in Gothenburg 1932-1943 and head of the Riksbyggen 1943-1945. He was appointed professor of urban construction at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1947 through 1963.[2]
In 1930 Åhrén was one of the designers for the Housing Exhibition of the Stockholm International Exhibition, and in 1931 he was one of the six co-authors of the 1931 manifesto, Acceptera, a plea for acceptance of functionalism, standardization, and mass production as a cultural change in Sweden.[3]
Åhrén collaborated with the sociologist, reformer and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Gunnar Myrdal from 1932 though 1935 on a social housing commission, and in 1934 they co-authored The Housing Question as a Social Planning Problem, a work that would prove influential in the structuring of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the Folkhemmet. In fact Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, who coined the word Folkhemmet, himself moved into an Åhrén-designed functionalist house in 1936.[4]
Åhrén, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, january, 2021, learn. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Uno Ahren news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Uno Ahren 6 August 1897 8 October 1977 was a Swedish architect and city planner and a leading proponent of functionalism in Sweden 1 Ahren circa 1930Ford Motor Company Building 1930 Contents 1 Biography 2 Work 3 See also 4 ReferencesBiography editUno Emrik Ahren was born in Stockholm Sweden He graduated as an architect at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1918 He was City Planning Manager in Gothenburg 1932 1943 and head of the Riksbyggen 1943 1945 He was appointed professor of urban construction at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1947 through 1963 2 In 1930 Ahren was one of the designers for the Housing Exhibition of the Stockholm International Exhibition and in 1931 he was one of the six co authors of the 1931 manifesto Acceptera a plea for acceptance of functionalism standardization and mass production as a cultural change in Sweden 3 Ahren collaborated with the sociologist reformer and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Gunnar Myrdal from 1932 though 1935 on a social housing commission and in 1934 they co authored The Housing Question as a Social Planning Problem a work that would prove influential in the structuring of the Swedish Social Democratic Party the Folkhemmet In fact Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson who coined the word Folkhemmet himself moved into an Ahren designed functionalist house in 1936 4 Ahren died at Arvika during 1977 Work editStudent Union at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm 1928 1930 with Sven Markelius Ford Motor Company Stockholm 1930 31 Flamman Soundfilm Theatre Hornstull Stockholm 1930 Terrace houses in Norra Angby Bromma Stockholm 1931 40 Chief City Planner for Gothenburg 1932 1943 Arsta centrum Stockholm 1943 53 Chief for the housing cooperative Riksbyggen 1943 1945See also editSocial engineering political science References edit Nationalencyklopedin 1 Ahren Uno 1897 1977 KulturNav Retrieved April 1 2019 Acceptera bla Gunnar Asplund Sven Markelius Uno Ahren Tiden Stockholm 1931 Bukowskis Retrieved April 1 2019 Uno Ahren Brytningar Formgivning amp funktionalism Rackstadmuseet Retrieved April 1 2019 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Uno Ahren amp oldid 1133256417, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
