In 1850, a small group of liberal reformers and business partners in Stockholm launched a magazine entitled Tidskrift för praktisk byggnadskonst och mekanik m.m. [The Journal for Practical Art of Building and Mechanics etc.], the first architectural magazine in Sweden. This article situates the magazine in its historical context. Through a close reading of published articles and editorial correspondence, it explores the magazine’s main objectives. It argues that this shortlived magazine was used as a tool for implementing comprehensive architectural and societal reforms. Above all, the magazine served as a laboratory for creating a new Swedish architectural style. Since this new architectural style was originally envisioned to be used by white Europeans all over the world, the transnational network of architectural magazines played a crucial role in the highly ambitious endeavour of its founders. This article shows how a national architectural style was conceptualised as an exportable commodity in mid nineteenth-century Scandinavia. In so doing, it further illuminates architectural magazines as agents and mergers of highly ambitious aesthetic, commercial, and patriotic aims.

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在十九世纪中期的瑞典印刷一种新的建筑风格

1850 年，斯德哥尔摩的一小群自由改革者和商业伙伴发行了一本名为 Tidskrift för praktisk byggnadskonst och mekanik mm [建筑和机械实用艺术杂志等] 的杂志，这是瑞典的第一本建筑杂志。本文将杂志置于其历史背景中。通过仔细阅读已发表的文章和社论信函，它探讨了该杂志的主要目标。它认为，这本短命的杂志被用作实施全面的建筑和社会改革的工具。最重要的是，该杂志是创造新瑞典建筑风格的实验室。由于这种新的建筑风格最初被设想为全世界的欧洲白人使用，跨国建筑杂志网络在其创始人雄心勃勃的努力中发挥了关键作用。本文展示了如何在 19 世纪中叶斯堪的纳维亚半岛将民族建筑风格概念化为可出口商品。这样做，它进一步阐明了建筑杂志作为雄心勃勃的美学、商业和爱国目标的代理和合并。