Estonie – Lettonie – Lituanie – Suède : 4 Architectures

3+1 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Arhis (Riga, Latvia)
Private Ideology (Vilnius, Lithuania)
White Arkitekter (Gothenburg, Sweden)

During the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, from 1940 to 1991, many Baltic architects devoted themselves to a utopian architecture, to visionary building projects that were never erected. With the transformation of Baltic society initiated in the 1990s, construction became a major factor of growth, reflecting new economic and ideological values.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania want, in harmony with Europe, to accelerate the transformation of a Soviet industrial society into a modern, democratic information society. Alongside a program of historic restoration, a new urban space is developing, including areas devoted to work, leisure, tourism, entertainment, culture, training and research.

In twentieth-century Sweden, attitudes toward architecture were strongly tied to the humanist and democratic values of our country.

(Original text of 2000, machine translated in 2026.)