Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Etzemuller, Thomas / Skinner, Alex
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, organic Gemeinschaft community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating sensible citizens, disciplining bodies, and reorganizing social relationships they attempted to intervene in the lives of ordinary men. The paradox of this task was to modern...