ABSTRACT
KBS was responsible for the provision of premises for state authorities. They also conducted research in all areas of its operation, which was published as reports, investigations, recommendations or information for internal use of KBS, the government, or for the industry at large. KBS underwent fundamental organization changes in 1967 and parts of their activities were moved to other agencies. Around the same time KBS officially adopted a structuralist philosophy of architecture that was officially launched through the exhibition Architecture-Structure in 1968. The argument in the exhibition was that the prevailing emphasis on functional requirements produced a structural problem – a problem within the building process, which, KBS argued, had not changed since the 1930s. If we look closer at how KBS described this period’s building process we find a familiar, non controversial view on the process of building construction with the phases of brief/program writing, design, and planning (Sigge 2011).
