Erin Eckhold Sassin

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 (eBook, ePUB)

(No)Home Away from Home

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501342738
• Artikelnr.: 60644747

Autorenporträt

Erin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Unmarried Individual and the "Lodger Problem" 1. Adolph
Kolping's Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing "Wild" Youth 2.
Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the "Roving Male" 3. Making
the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All 4. Homes for Women:
Between the Domestic Realm and the Public Sphere Extended Conclusion:
Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type