In this article I investigate the spatial development of Swedish district courthouses and their different room types from 1970 to 2020, with attention to the specificities and commonalities with other building types. How have spatial form and use travelled between building types during this period, and how has this contributed to the recent, quite radical developments and transformation of the courthouse as a building type? In the article, I focus particularly on aspects relating to the architectural and spatial culture of citation, and on what I call territorial mimetics here. Based on a mixed-method approach, the study traces and discusses five spatial themes of typological change in district courthouses, trends that also can be seen as a part of deeper spatial and mimetic tendencies circulating in Swedish society during these decades. I conclude with a discussion of the specific mimetic style of the courthouse as characterised by an ongoing negotiation between type-specific rules and cross-type models.

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地域模仿和房间类型：1970-2020 年瑞典地区法院的空间发展

在本文中，我研究了 1970 年至 2020 年瑞典地区法院及其不同房间类型的空间发展，同时关注与其他建筑类型的特殊性和共性。在此期间，建筑类型之间的空间形式和用途如何变化？这对法院作为一种建筑类型最近的相当激进的发展和转型有何贡献？在本文中，我特别关注与引用的建筑和空间文化相关的方面，以及我在这里所说的领土模仿。基于混合方法，该研究追踪并讨论了地区法院类型变化的五个空间主题，这些趋势也可以被视为瑞典社会几十年来更深层次的空间和模仿倾向的一部分。