{"product_id":"single-people-and-mass-housing-erin-eckhold-sassin-9781350282780","title":"Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930: (No)Home Away from Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, \u003ci\u003e Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 \u003c\/i\u003eis the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomes for unmarried men and women, or \u003ci\u003eLedigenheime\u003c\/i\u003e, were built for nearly every powerful interest group in Germany-progressive, reactionary, and radical alike-from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1920s. Designed by both unknown craftsmen and renowned architects ranging from Peter Behrens to Bruno Taut, these homes fought unregimented lodging in overcrowded working-class dwellings while functioning as apparatuses of moral and social control. A means to societal reintegration, \u003ci\u003eLedigenheime\u003c\/i\u003e effectively bridged the public-private divide and rewrote the rules of who was deserving of quality housing-pointing forward to the building programs of Weimar Berlin and Red Vienna, experimental housing in Soviet Russia, Feminist collectives, accommodations for postwar \"guestworkers,\" and even housing for the elderly today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Eckhold Sassin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350282782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350282780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Erin Eckhold Sassin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070139986175,"sku":"9781350282780","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_900c8595-3402-4ed0-9201-ed8f06079f28.jpg?v=1685428592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/single-people-and-mass-housing-erin-eckhold-sassin-9781350282780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}