Name: Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930: (No)Home Away from Home
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Author: Sassin, Erin Eckhold ; Barnstone, Deborah Ascher ; Haakenson, Thomas O.
ISBN: 9781350282780

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Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930: (No)Home Away from Home

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Physical Book

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Author

Sassin, Erin Eckhold ; Barnstone, Deborah Ascher ; Haakenson, Thomas O.

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781350282780

Synopsis "Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930: (No)Home Away from Home"

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance. Homes for unmarried men and women, or Ledigenheime, were built for nearly every powerful interest group in Germany-progressive, reactionary, and radical alike-from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1920s. Designed by both unknown craftsmen and renowned architects ranging from Peter Behrens to Bruno Taut, these homes fought unregimented lodging in overcrowded working-class dwellings while functioning as apparatuses of moral and social control. A means to societal reintegration, Ledigenheime effectively bridged the public-private divide and rewrote the rules of who was deserving of quality housing-pointing forward to the building programs of Weimar Berlin and Red Vienna, experimental housing in Soviet Russia, Feminist collectives, accommodations for postwar "guestworkers," and even housing for the elderly today.

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