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A women's Berlin : building the modern city /

Architectural History/Women's Studies"Despina Stratigakos takes us on a fascinating journey into a largely forgotten city at the heart of early twentieth-century metropolitan Berlin. Both imaginary and physical, A Women's Berlin is a space of agency in which women architects, designer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratigakos, Despina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
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  • Introduction: a forgotten metropolis
  • Remapping Berlin: a modern woman's guidebook to the city
  • From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: the politics of clubhouse architecture
  • Home of our own: single women and the new domestic architecture
  • Exhibiting the new woman: the phenomenal success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf
  • Architecture of social work: workers' clubs, social welfare institutions, and the debate over female housing inspectors
  • Epilogue: What a woman must know about Berlin, twenty years later.