The Origins of the Social Usage of Photography

Joschke, Christian; Brown, Zachary

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“…Photography quickly became the favored tool for documenting local architecture amongst amateur Heimat enthusiasts and heritage professionals alike (Joschke & Brown, 2012). Beginning in the 1880s with the founding of the field of "house research" (Hausforschung), books on pre-modern northern European dwelling cultures were rife but were largely limited to reproducing diagrams, drawings, and old artworks depicting traditional dwellings (see, e.g., Essenwein, 1892;Stiehl, 1908).…”

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The Kleinhaus and the Politics of Localism in German Architecture and Planning, c. 1910

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2022

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As an antidote to the substandard tenement apartment, the ideal of the “small house” (Kleinhaus) was ubiquitous in housing debates in Germany before World War One. Denoting a modestly sized two-story family house aligned with the street, it had its origins in the Middle Ages, during which it was constructed to serve the humble domestic needs of urban craftsmen who lived and worked in thriving trade cities including Lübeck, Bremen, Hamburg, Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Ulm. For modern promoters of low-density alternatives to the tenement, the Kleinhaus was an ideal model for mass appropriation. Unlike foreign and untranslatable dwelling models like the “villa” and the “cottage,” the Kleinhaus conveyed something that was both urban and quintessentially Germanic. It was thus enlisted by housing reformers to strengthen local cultural identity whilst raising the standards of the nation’s housing stock. This article examines the significance of the Kleinhaus in fostering dialogue between the fields of architecture and planning, and considers its embeddedness in a wider project of cultural nationalism in pre-war Germany.

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Section: Discovering Heimatmentioning

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The Kleinhaus and the Politics of Localism in German Architecture and Planning, c. 1910

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The Origins of the Social Usage of Photography

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The Kleinhaus and the Politics of Localism in German Architecture and Planning, c. 1910

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