Main entry:

Teige, Karel, 1900-1951.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Chicago, Ill. : Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, ©2002.

Description:

xxviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Translated from the Czech.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262201364
9780262201360

Subject:

Apartment houses.
Room layout (Dwellings)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Working class Housing.
Housing Political aspects.
Habitations Aménagement.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Travailleurs Logement.
Logement Aspect politique.
Immeubles d'habitation.
Woningen.
Theorieën.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Dluhosch, Eric, 1927-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224047
Call No.: NA2599.8.T263.A35 2002
Status: Available