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Author:   Professor Aristotle Kallis (Keele University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350346222

ISBN 10:   1350346225
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   29 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction ‘Contact Zone’ and 'Practical Utopia' Structure 1. Genealogies of the Minimum Poverty, ‘Human Needs', and 'Minimum' Habitation and 'Minimum Needs' Early Interventions and Reform Initiatives Existenzminimum The Low-cost Housing Calculus 2. The 'Small Dwelling' Between Emergency and Aspiration Size and Dwelling The 'Small Dwelling' after WW1 From the 'Small' to the 'Smallest' Dwelling (Kleinstwohnung) The Pioneering Cases of Vienna and Frankfurt 3. International Expert Networks and The Housing Question in the Interwar Period The IFHTP Encounters the Question of Mass Housing: Vienna, 1926 The IFHTP Congress in Paris, 1928: The Trope of the 'Housing For the Very Poor' The IFHTP Congress in Rome, 1929: Planning and Financing Mass Urban Housing 4. The 'Minimum Dwelling' as Utopia WW1 as Rupture: The Space of Utopia Interwar Modernism as Discourse: Minimum and Optimum Architecture as Revolution The Private Cell, The Public Sphere, and What Lies In-Between The Soviet Experience: Pursuing the Minimum in Utopia The 'Dwelling Ration': Social Utopia in Disguise ‘Frictionless Living': The Studies of Alexander Klein 5. CIAM2: The 'Minimum Dwelling' In Focus CIAM and its 'Lesser' Congresses CIAM’s First Steps and the Question of Dwelling Setting Up the First 'Working Congress' The 1929 Frankfurt Congress (CIAM2) Language Matters: The Opacity of the Existenzminimum The Aftermath of the Frankfurt Congress 6. CIAM3: Dwelling as the Unlikely Hub og Modern Architecture From CIAM2 to CIAM3: Exploring Scales in Three-Dimensional Space The Elusive Theme(s) of CIAM3: The Battle of the Scales The Brussels Congress The 'Minimum Dwelling' in CIAM3 7. The CIAM2 and CIAM3 Exhibitions The Exhibition Field in Interwar Europe: Showcasing the 'Minimum' The Minimum Dwelling on Show: Exhibiting CIAM2 Exhibiting CIAM3 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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"""The early Modern Movement was passionately committed to addressing the housing needs of the industrial working classes. In this meticulously researched book, Aristotle Kallis presents an authoritative account of the emergence and significance of the Minimum Dwelling (Existenzminimum) as an important expression of that commitment. It supplies important new understandings to our knowledge of twentieth-century European architectural and planning history."" --John R. Gold, University College London, UK"

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Aristotle Kallis is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the School of Humanities, Keele University, UK.

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