Osvald Almqvist

From 1911 to 1913, he worked in the Stockholm Building Department; from 1916 to 1920, he was the head of the architectural bureau of Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB in Burlänge.

During this time, he developed a plan for the city (which was not formally recognized) and buildings in the residential district of Bergslasbyn.

[5] Starting from the premise that human dimensions should be the basis, the researchers conducted a large study to measure how the kitchen workplace should be designed to facilitate work, and Almqvist developed standardized units for cabinets, shelves, and benches that could be combined with each other in different ways.

His work would form the basis of the activities of the Home Research Institute in the 1940s, which in 1950,[6] became the first Swedish kitchen standard.

In his program declaration, he stated that in urban and regional planning, it is essential to ensure that continuous park paths with pedestrian, horseback and bicycle paths, public playgrounds, exercise and sports fields and, further out, forest parks and nature reserves could be created for outdoor recreation in both summer and winter.