Description: The first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender- specific building type has played for over eighty years.
Brief description: Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. He is coeditor of the book series Visual Cultures and German Contexts and has been published widely, including in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism, Spectacle, Representations of German Identity, as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. He has received awards and fellowships from the United States Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.
Review Quotes:
"This insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age-providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities." --Abigail A. Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emerita of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, USA
"German architecture rewritten from the perspective of the single men and women living in mass housing. Meticulously researched, Erin Eckhold Sassin's book is a major contribution to the histories of modernization and urbanization and their highly gendered designs for living." --Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA