Funkis

Funkis, short for functionalism, was a branch of modernist architecture that became one of the most influential movements in Nordic building of the twentieth century, flourishing across Scandinavia and Finland, especially Denmark, Sweden and Finland, from around the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition through the 1930s and 1940s before merging into broader modernism by the 1960s. It arose as a reaction against nineteenth-century historicist architecture, treating a building's function and purpose, rather than decoration, as the basis of its form, an approach influenced by the unornamented factories and industrial buildings of the period. Its buildings are marked by flat roofing, stuccoed walls, architectural glazing, well-lit rooms, an industrial expression and nautical-inspired details such as round windows, and in Denmark alone more than one hundred thousand single-family funkis houses were built between 1925 and 1945, generally favoring brick over reinforced concrete as the practical, economical material of the interwar and postwar building boom.