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Martin Wagner: The Growing House: Das Wachsende Haus

Martin Wagner: The Growing House: Das Wachsende Haus

Fezer, Jesko
Hirsch, Nikolaus
Hiller, Christian

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ISBN10: 3944669967
ISBN13: 9783944669960
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.30 Depth: 11.60
Language: English

In 1931, Martin Wagner, head of planning for Berlin, set up a working group tasked with developing a design for a growing house. The group included Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Erich Mendelssohn, Hans Poelzig, and Hans Scharoun. As an architectural response to the Great Depression and the collapse of the building industry, they formulated plans for adaptable micro-houses, which were to provide only what was necessary and expedient and whose design should be capable of being modified in accordance with the socio-economic circumstances of the inhabitants. The models created by Wagner and his working group are documented in this publication.

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) project Wohnungsfrage investigates the fraught relationship between architecture, housing, and social reality in an exhibition of experimental housing models, an international academy, and a publication series that examines various options for self-determined, social and affordable housing. This publication series presents key historical works accompanied by new commentaries, contemporary case studies from around the world, and publications by activists concerned with urban policy issues, architects, and artists.

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