Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice Nilsen Many of These Buildings Have Disappeared As the Result of Fire, Demolition, and Modernisation

Cover Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but A doctoral thesis from the department of historical studies Nilsen Social Practice Urban Buildings and Vernacular many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were University of Gothenburg built during periods of urban transformation; disdained for their rural look and for the fire hazard they represented they were nevertheless valued for being warm, affordable and movable. This study reveals the fundamental role played by the wooden house in the formation of urban Sweden and Swedish history. Wooden buildings were particularly suited to mass production and relocation, which helped to realise the ideal town plan in the transformation of Swedish urban space.Early modern wooden houses feature more as archaeological remains and less as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of these two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log construction, timber framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range Vernacular Buildings and of functions in both central and peripheral locations, and within all strata of society. New strategies were developed to create affordable warm housing while the housing stock featured both change and continuity of layout; the storeyed house contributed to evolution of the multiple unit structure. Surprisingly, this study establishes that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous Urban Social Practice research indicated. Andrine Nilsen has historical urban buildings archaeology as a special interest and undertook her doctoral Wood and people in studies at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Before this she worked in the project The early modern town - between the local and the global publishing on the subject of medieval wooden houses and early modern town plans. As part of this project, she co-organized the conference early modern Swedish society Urban Variation in 2013 and co-edited the subsequent publication. The AACCP network, Architecture, archaeology and contemporary city planning, grew out of this project and conference. Subsequently she co-organized Buildings in Society International in Stockholm in 2017. Nilsen has also explored questions of marginality, centre and periphery with Martina Hjertman in conference presentations and papers. They now aim to develop a project with the historian Joachim Östlund to investigate Gothenburg’s role in the Andrine Nilsen early modern transatlantic slave trade. Archaeopress Archaeology www.archaeopress.com Nilsen cover thesis version.indd 1 12/07/2020 09:31:44 Doctoral thesis Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, defended on the 18th of September, 2020 Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice Wood and people in early modern Swedish society Andrine Nilsen Archaeopress Archaeology Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Summertown Pavilion 18-24 Middle Way Summertown Oxford OX2 7LG www.archaeopress.com ISBN: 978-91-85245-81-9 © Archaeopress and Andrine Nilsen 2020 Cover image: ‘View of Gottenburg’ the great harbour canal by Elias Martin c.1787. Gothenburg City Museum. GOTARC SERIES B. GOTHENBURG ARCHAEOLOGICAL THESES ISSN 02 82 – 6860 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/64421 Manuscript revision: Per Cornell Gwilym Williams Thomas Lindkvist Tove Hjørungdal Lars Ersgård Printed in England by Severn, Gloucester Published with contributions from Thank you for supporting my doctoral research! Berit Wallenbergs Stiftelse Institutionen för Historiska Studier Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse Brandförsäkringsverkets stiftelse för bebyggelsehistorisk forskning Lennart J. Hägglunds stiftelse Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse Kungl. Hvitfeldska Stiftelsen Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien For dendrocronological analysis Brusewitz Donationsfond Helgo Zetterwalls Stiftelse Johan och Jakob Söderbergs Stiftelse For research trips and conferences Sven and Dagmar Saléns Stiftelse Helge Ax:on Johnsons Stiftelse Fonden Wilhelm och Martina Lundgrens Stiftelse Elna Bengtssons Fond Helgo Zetterwalls Stiftelse GU donationsfonder Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg Kungliga Hvitfeldska Stiftelsen Kunglig Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur Vernacular Architecture Group Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland Contents List of Figures ��v List of Tables ............................................................................................................................................................................... ix Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................................................. xii Glossary ..................................................................................................................................................................................... xiv Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................1 Aims and questions.................................................................................................................................................................1 Time span and space ..............................................................................................................................................................1 Study methods and academic disciplines ...........................................................................................................................1 Objects of study and mode of selection ...............................................................................................................................2 Archaeological records ..........................................................................................................................................................2 Selection of preserved houses ..............................................................................................................................................3 Historical records....................................................................................................................................................................3 The structure of the study .....................................................................................................................................................3 Appendices ...............................................................................................................................................................................5 Chapter 1 The scale of the city: the social dimension of space in theory and method ............................................6 Time and process ....................................................................................................................................................................6 Social practice and social formations ..................................................................................................................................7 Social formations - social dimensions and materiality ....................................................................................................7 Serial collectivity ....................................................................................................................................................................7 Structuration ...........................................................................................................................................................................7 Social practice .........................................................................................................................................................................7 Materiality and the social ......................................................................................................................................................8 Micro-studies and repetitive practices................................................................................................................................9 Micro archaeology ..................................................................................................................................................................9 An interdisciplinary approach to the built environment ................................................................................................9 The idea of structural grammatical transformation .......................................................................................................10 Repetitive structures ............................................................................................................................................................11 Iteration ��11 Space .......................................................................................................................................................................................11

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