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The minimum dwelling =

(Number (ISBN

0262201364

(Number (ISBN

9780262201360

Number

b798025

Title Proper

The minimum dwelling =

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

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

First Statement of Responsibility

Karel Teige ; translated and introduced by Eric Dluhosch.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago, Ill. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxviii, 412 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

"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 of the landmark architectural books of the twentieth century." "Minimum Dwelling is not just a book on architecture; it is a blueprint for a new way of living, calling for a radical rethinking of domestic space and of the role of modern architecture in the planning, design, and construction of new dwelling types for the proletariat. Teige goes far beyond Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and other architects whose proposals Teige viewed as little more than new versions of baroque palaces, mainly for the new financial aristocracy. Teige envisioned the minimum dwelling not as a reduced version of a bourgeois apartment or rural cottage, but as a wholly new dwelling type built with the cooperation of architects, sociologists, economists, health officials, physicians, social workers, politicians, and trade unionists." "The book covers many subjects that are still of great relevance. Of particular interest are Teige's rejection of traditional notions of the kitchen as the core of family-centered plans and of marriage as the foundation of modern cohabitation. He describes alternative lifestyles and new ways of cohabitation of sexes, generations, and classes."--Jacket.

General Material Designation

Nejmenší byt.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Apartment houses.

Housing-- Political aspects.

Modern movement (Architecture)

Room layout (Dwellings)

Working class-- Housing.

Habitations-- Aménagement.

Immeubles d'habitation.

Logement-- Aspect politique.

Mouvement moderne (Architecture)

Travailleurs-- Logement.

Apartment houses.

Housing-- Political aspects.

Modern movement (Architecture)

Room layout (Dwellings)

Theorieën.

Woningen.

Working class-- Housing.

Number

728.2-19-

Number

728.4

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Teige, Karel,1900-1951.

Dluhosch, Eric,1927-

Date of Transaction

20201207104016.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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