The Architecture of Social Reform
Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism
Seiten
2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5968-7 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5968-7 (ISBN)
Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .
The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture’s obsession with domesticity. Copiously illustrated, Rousset’s revealing analysis demonstrates how questions over aesthetics, style, urbanization, and technology that gripped the modernist imagination were deeply ingrained in a larger concern to reform society through housing. The increasing demand for new housing in Germany’s rapidly growing cities fostered critical exchanges between a heterogeneous group of actors, including architects, urban theorists, planners, and social scientists, who called for society to be freed from class antagonism through the provision of good, modest, traditionally-minded domestic design. Offering a compelling account of architecture’s ability to act socially, the book provocatively argues that architectural theory underwent its most critical epistemological transformation in relation to the dynamics of modern class politics long before the arrival of the avant-garde. -- .
The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture’s obsession with domesticity. Copiously illustrated, Rousset’s revealing analysis demonstrates how questions over aesthetics, style, urbanization, and technology that gripped the modernist imagination were deeply ingrained in a larger concern to reform society through housing. The increasing demand for new housing in Germany’s rapidly growing cities fostered critical exchanges between a heterogeneous group of actors, including architects, urban theorists, planners, and social scientists, who called for society to be freed from class antagonism through the provision of good, modest, traditionally-minded domestic design. Offering a compelling account of architecture’s ability to act socially, the book provocatively argues that architectural theory underwent its most critical epistemological transformation in relation to the dynamics of modern class politics long before the arrival of the avant-garde. -- .
Isabel Rousset teaches architectural history at Curtin University -- .
Introduction
1 Building from the inside out
2 The interiorisation of life
3 Streets for movement, streets for dwelling
4 The culture of the visible
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Design and Material Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 78 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 585 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5968-6 / 1526159686 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5968-7 / 9781526159687 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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