{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-social-reform-housing-tradition-and-german-modernism-9781526159687","title":"The Architecture of Social Reform: Housing,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe architecture of social reform\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture’s obsession with domesticity. Copiously illustrated, Rousset’s revealing analysis demonstrates how questions over aesthetics, style, urbanization, and technology that gripped the modernist imagination were deeply ingrained in a larger concern to reform society through housing. The increasing demand for new housing in Germany’s rapidly growing cities fostered critical exchanges between a heterogeneous group of actors, including architects, urban theorists, planners, and social scientists, who called for society to be freed from class antagonism through the provision of good, modest, traditionally-minded domestic design. Offering a compelling account of architecture’s ability to act socially, the book provocatively argues that architectural theory underwent its most critical epistemological transformation in relation to the dynamics of modern class politics long before the arrival of the avant-garde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Building from the inside out \u003cbr\u003e2 The interiorisation of life \u003cbr\u003e3 Streets for movement, streets for dwelling \u003cbr\u003e4 The culture of the visible\u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041024278871,"sku":"9781526159687","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526159687.jpg?v=1750948646","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-architecture-of-social-reform-housing-tradition-and-german-modernism-9781526159687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}