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The Architecture of Social Reform - Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism (Hardcover)
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The Architecture of Social Reform - Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
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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.
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