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page178from Nordic Architects Writes
Aulis Blomstedt’s Annex to the Workers’
Institute, Helsinki, 1959
strong in the optimistic belief in progress
of the 1920s, until the iron fist of fascism shattered all the dreams. Utopian
thinking did not die, though.
In
the 1960s a new view of society spread among planners, behind which lurks the
Three Sector Model of Jean Fourastié. The scientific and technical revolution is expected to eliminate
the old class structure as a tour de force, and any new problems will be common
to the whole industrialized world.
The
main emphasis is on the constantly expanding third sector of the economy and
its effect on planning and building. This theory (also adopted by many planners
in socialist countries) is clearly also behind the statistical thinking,
computer worship and futurological dreams of the young men of the 1960s. This
is the path to a new utopia and a new aesthetics, a unified brave new world in
the sunshine of technology! Who could bear to bother with day-to-day policies!
The Marxist young
The young people in Finland today no longer
talk about techniques or beauty or the relation between them. They project
themselves into the conflict between work and
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