Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, some of the crucial generative writings on the subject have not been widely translated, and the movement's intellectual background is not well known. Modern Swedish Design collects three of Swedish design's founding texts for the first time in English. In "Beauty in the Home" (1899), philosopher and critic Ellen Key (1849-1926) promotes simplicity and clarity of purpose with the goal of social reform. Art historian Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977) was instrumental in the spread of ideas such as Key's; in "Better Things for Everyday Life"(1919) he contends that design should be true to its time and available to all, and calls for a modern design language reflecting new materials and methods. Finally, "acceptera" (1931), cowritten by Paulsson and architects featured in the famous Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, engages in a debate between the proponents of handicraft and those of design idioms emerging from industrial mass production. Lively illustrations and near-facsimiles of the texts' original publications, scholarly introductions by the editors, and an essay by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, accompany the translations.

Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, literature and architectural writings. Uniquely, the readings underline the point of view of the user of a dwelling and assess the impact of varying uses on the evolution of domestic architecture. This book is a valuable asset for students, scholars, and designers alike, exploring the extraordinary variety of methods, interpretations and source materials now available in this important field. For students, it opens windows on the many aspects of domestic architecture. For scholars, it introduces new, interdisciplinary points of view and suggests directions for further research. It acquaints practising architects in the field of housing design with history and methods and offers directions for future design possibilities.

While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses--most of them in new ranch and split-level styles--were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country's rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life--informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area: * Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI) * Wethersfield (Natick, MA) * Brookfield (Brockton, MA) Chicago area: * Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL) * Elk Grove Village * Rolling Meadows * Weathersfield at Schaumburg Los Angeles and Orange County area: * Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA)* Panorama City (Los Angeles) * Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA) Philadelphia area: * Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA)* Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)

1 Ein grosser Teil der privaten Aufzeichnungen sau, Berlin and Chicago, Cambridge, Mass. 1969; und dokumentarischen Sammlungen, die ich fur ders., Bauhaus.Archiv Berlin, Museum fur Gestal. meine Forschungen verwendet habe, hat seit tung, Braunschweig 1979, sowie Bauhaus-Archiv, 1968 entweder bereits den Besitzer gewechselt Museum fur Gestaltung, Berlin 1981. Wichtige oder wird gerade zuruckgegeben. Sowohl die wissenschaftliche Arbeiten sind Marcel Francis May- als auch die Eckstein-Papiere sind ver cono, Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bau. streut, ich besitze aber Mikrofilm-Kopien der haus in Weimar, Urbana, Illinois 1971; Karl Materialien, die ich aus diesen Sammlungen be Heinz Huter, Das Bauhaus in Weimar, Berlin nutzt habe. Die meisten der Mies van der Rohe 1976, sowie Frank Whitford, Bauhaus, New Papiere, die ich im Busch-Reisinger Museum ein York 1984. gesehen habe, befinden sich jetzt im Bauhaus Zu einigen Hauptreprasentanten der zwanziger Archiv in Berlin. 1968 wurde ein bedeutendes und dreissiger Jahre sind inzwischen neue Infor Mies van der Rohe-Archiv im Museum of Mo mationen verfugbar. dern Art eingerichtet. Es umfasst hauptsachlich Zu Behrens: Tillman Buddensieg, Industriekultur. Zeichnungen, Modelle und Photographien von Peter Behrens und die AEG 1907-1914, Berlin Gebauden und Projekten Mies van der Rohes, 1979; Hans-J oachim Kadatz, Peter Behrens. A rchi enthalt aber auch Geschaftskorrespondenz, die tekt, Maler, Grafiker und Formgestalter fur die hier behandelten Aspekte von betrachtli 1868-1940, Leipzig 1977, sowie Alan Windsor, cher Bedeutung ist."

This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Before the publication of this volume, scholars had virtually ignored the extensive writings and programs published by leading Nazi ideologues before 1933. Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp have collected the political writings of Nazi theorists-Dietrich Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, Joseph Goebbels, Gregor and Otto Strasser, Heinrich Himmler, and Richard Walther Darre-during the period before the National Socialists came to power. The Strassers are given considerable space because of their great intellectual importance within the party before 1933. In commentary by the editors, the significance of each Nazi theorist is weighed and evaluated at each stage of the history of the party. Lane and Rupp conclude that Nazi ideology, before 1933 at least, was not a consistent whole but a doctrine in the process of rapid development to which new ideas were continually introduced. By the time the Nazis came to power, however, a group of interrelated assertions and official promises had been made to party followers and to the public. Hitler and the Third Reich had to accommodate this ideology, even when not implementing it. Hitler's role in the development of Nazi ideology, interpreted here as a very permissive one, is thoroughly assessed. His own writings, however, have been omitted since they are readily available elsewhere. The twenty-eight documents included in this book illustrate themes and phases in Nazi ideology which are discussed in the introduction and the detailed prefatory notes. Long selections, as often as possible full-length, are provided to allow the reader to follow the arguments. Each selection is accompanied by an introductory note and annotations which clarify its relationship to other works of the author and other writings of the period. Also included are original translations of the "Twenty-Five Points" and a number of little-known official party statements.

Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, literature and architectural writings. Uniquely, the readings underline the point of view of the user of a dwelling and assess the impact of varying uses on the evolution of domestic architecture. This book is a valuable asset for students, scholars, and designers alike, exploring the extraordinary variety of methods, interpretations and source materials now available in this important field. For students, it opens windows on the many aspects of domestic architecture. For scholars, it introduces new, interdisciplinary points of view and suggests directions for further research. It acquaints practising architects in the field of housing design with history and methods and offers directions for future design possibilities.