Modern Housing
Modern Housing
Catherine Bauer; foreword by Barbara Penner
University of Minnesota Press, April 2020
Paperback | 6 x 9-1/4 inches | 400 pages | 175 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1517909062 | $35.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. It is also a manifesto: America needs to draw on Europe?s example to solve its housing crisis. Only when housing is transformed into a planned, public amenity will it truly be modern.
Modern Housing?s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today?s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever. Catherine Bauer (Wurster) (1905?1964) was a leading public housing advocate and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was instrumental in the creation of its College of Environmental Design. Barbara Penner is an architectural historian and professor of architectural humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture, U...
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