Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930
Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing…
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Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930
Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany (1850-1930): (No) Home Away From Home 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