Architectura aedium sacrarum, presided over by Anders Riddermarck and defended on Feburary 5 in 1695 by Jonas Norck, is most probably Sweden’s first dissertation in architecture. More sepcifically, it deals with the architecture of sacred buildings. It brings up everything from the structure and materials of buidlings to architectural decorations and the five orders of classical columns.
Territorial mimetics and room types: The spatial development of Swedish district courthouses 1970-2020
A not so new article, out in 2023:
ABSTRACT
In this article I investigate the spatial development of the Swedish district courthouse and its different room types from 1970 to 2020, with attention to its specificities and its commonalities with other building types. How have spatial form and use travel between building types during this period, and how has this contributed to the recent, quite radical developments and transformation of the courthouse as a building type? In the article, I especially focus on aspects relating the architectural and spatial culture of citation, and on what I here will call territorial mimetics. Based on a mixed-method approach, the study, traces and discusses five spatial themes of typological change within district courthouses, trends that also can be seen as a part of deeper spatial and mimetic tendencies circulating the Swedish society during these decades. In the conclusion, I then discuss the specific mimetic style of the courthouse as characterised by an ongoing negotiation between type-specific rules and cross-type models.
