During the last election campaign, architecture sailed up and became a hot political issue.

The Sweden Democrats launched Sweden House, the Social Democrats in Gothenburg promised to build in a more classical style and in both Halmstad and Upplands Väsby there have been referendums on how to build.

In recent years, the association Arkitekturuproret has received a lot of attention for its campaigning for classical architecture and against modernist boxes.

"Has been eating crackers for a long time"

Together with Novus, Kulturnyheterna has investigated the public's attitude to architectural style.

The question that was asked was

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To what extent do you think that new houses should be built in the classical style?"

In this case, classical style means the architecture that characterized the cityscape in Sweden before the breakthrough of modernism in 1930, for example national romanticism, art nouveau and 20th-century classicism.

44 percent, just over four out of ten, think that you should build classically to a large extent.

- It may be because we live in troubled times and that people then look for the safest style.

Then many are super tired of all the shoddy architecture we have had to endure for the past 50-60 years.

We have had crackers for a long time, now you want a hook, says Mark Isitt.

Significantly fewer are against classic new buildings.

14 percent think that new houses should be built in a classical style to a low extent or not at all.

- I think people are looking for houses that touch them.

This is what we liken the classic style to: that there is much more care and consideration, says Mark Isitt.

Convenience weighs the most

But the appearance of the house is not the most important factor in new construction when the Swedes are asked to rank.

Instead, "functionality and convenience" ends up at the top with 41 percent.

Next comes "ecological sustainability" (25 percent), followed by cost (15 percent).

"Aesthetics" ranks as the least important of these four factors (12 percent).

- It is expected that the functionality is at its highest.

The home must work.

A little more surprising is that "ecological sustainability" ranks before "cost".

It is clearly the spirit of the times that is reflected in that answer, says Mark Isitt.