Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4272-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Visual Cultures and German Contexts |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 color, 89 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 696 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-4272-X / 150134272X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-4272-1 / 9781501342721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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