瑞典等北欧福利国家十分重视住宅建设，战后住宅发展迅速。在福利制度刚刚建立的四五十年代，政府开始对住宅建设给予大规模的资助；６０年代，由于大量人口从乡村迁入城市，更加快了住宅建设的步伐；到７０年代，住宅量的需求已经满足，居民对建筑质量和建筑形式提出了进一步的要求。北欧住宅建筑风格既有古典主义的，又有现代主义的，相对而言，瑞典更传统，而芬兰、丹麦更倾向国际化。 Sweden and other Nordic welfare countries attach great importance to housing construction, and post-war housing development has been rapid. In the 40 or 50 years when the welfare system was just established, the government began to provide large-scale subsidies for housing construction; in the 1960s, as large numbers of people migrated from rural areas into cities, the pace of housing construction was accelerated; by the 1970s, the demand for housing was increased. Already satisfied, residents have put forward further requirements for construction quality and architectural forms. Scandinavian residential architectural styles are both classical and modernistic. Relatively speaking, Sweden is more traditional, while Finland and Denmark are more international.