Architecture, Ritual Practice and Co-Determination in the Swedish Office

Originally published in 1994, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Architecture, Ritual Practice and Co-determination in the Swedish Office is a case study of Swedish office buildings and examines how they have been influenced by spatial aspects of traditional culture in Scandinavia. It suggests a theoretical framework for architecture by casting the ritual form of Swedish offices into three distinct modes of expression.

Dennis Doxtater is Emeritus Professor in the College of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona, USA. He is a licensed architect and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Peru), holding degrees from the University of Washington, USA (B.Arch. and M.A. Social Anthropology) and University of Michigan, USA (D.Arch.).