Description: Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture.
Review Quotes: "In her highly original new study, Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein compares the actuality of built architecture with the concept behind it in private homes belonging to Goethe, Horace Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger . . . In Bernstein's hands, objective truth does not seem to exist, but rather gives way to multiple truths. Bernstein makes this apparent in the collage-like manner with which she treats her subject, but also with the elegant, often poetic, language she employs. She loves to deal in opposites, joining them together so they become parts of a whole, rather than dichotomous constructs in a way the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown would have loved."--Deborah Ascher Barnstone "German Studies Review"