The Minimum Dwelling Revisited - Kallis, Aristotle

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Résumé :

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