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House Housing by Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, as seen at Wohnungsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
Architecture | 24.10.2015

Wohnungsfrage @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

"What is understood today as the housing problem is a specific intensification of the bad housing conditions endured by the working class through the sudden large scale movement of the population to the major cities; huge increases in rents, an even greater overcrowding of individuals in houses, and for some the impossibility of even finding suitable accommodation." 1 Although written in 1872 Friedrich Engels analysis of the urban housing situation remains in many ways as contemporary as it

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