In 1965, the government of Czechoslovakia adopted a resolution which ordered that 1-4 % of the budget of the entire building be dedicated to its artistic beautification in the form of permanent placement of works of art.
[3] Since there was almost no private ownership in the years 1966 to 1989, the vast majority of art in architecture was placed within this resolution.
In Finland, the percent for art principle was first introduced as an official government policy in connection with the construction of the Finnish Parliament building in the early 1930s, though it was not implemented until 1939.
In 1956 the government extended the principle to all public buildings, and during the 1960s individual municipalities also drew up their own schemes.
[8] From 1934 to 1943, the Section of Painting and Sculpture in the United States Department of the Treasury followed a policy requiring one percent of the cost of federal buildings to be applied toward art and decoration.