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

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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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9781501342721

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930: (No)Home Away from Home 1st Edition is written by Erin Eckhold Sassin and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930 are 9781501342745, 1501342746 and the print ISBNs are 9781350282780, 1350282782. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781501342721.