The Bygge och Bo (Building and Home) exhibitions held in Stockholm between 1921 and 1928 were the forerunners of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. In Swedish design surveys, the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition is described as the event that introduced the Swedish public to Modernist ideas on housing. However, aspects of the Building and Home exhibitions demonstrate that Swedish architects and organizations had already embraced Modernist values of standardized housing construction, rational household work, and a social concern to solve the problem of the working class's poor housing conditions, and that they endeavored to share their ideas with the public through the Bygge och Bo exhibitions. In fact, the exhibitions represent the shift in Swedish housing policy from the healthy garden city as an ideal for the working class to the increasing emphasis laid on modern apartment buildings. Furthermore, they renewed and developed the exhibition medium.