The minimum dwelling = L'habitation minimum = Die Kleinstwohnung : the housing crisis, housing reform ... / Karel Teige ; translated and introduced by Eric Dluhosch.

The minimum dwelling = L'habitation minimum = Die Kleinstwohnung : the housing crisis, housing reform ... /

"Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of the European avant-garde, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in the 1920s and 1930s. His Minimum Dwelling, originally published in Czech in 1932 and appearing now for the first time in English, is one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teige, Karel, 1900-1951
Format: Book
Language:English
Czech
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Chicago, Ill. : MIT Press ; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, [2002]
Subjects:
Apartment houses.
Room layout (Dwellings)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Working class > Housing.
Housing > Political aspects.
Online Access: Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory remarks : toward a dialectic of architecture and a sociology of dwelling
  • The housing crisis
  • The international housing shortage
  • Modern architecture and housing in Czechoslovakia
  • The face of the contemporary city
  • Dwelling and household in the nineteenth century
  • The evolution of dwelling types and contemporary housing reform
  • Model settlements and housing exhibitions
  • The modern apartment and the modern house
  • The minimum dwelling
  • Low-, medium-, or high-rise houses?
  • Modern site planning methods
  • Toward new forms of dwelling
  • The antithesis between city and country
  • Conclusion.

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