Ignoring and erasing: collective housing in 20th century Czechoslovakia

Abstract
A concept of a collective house that would include apartments and a wide array of communal facilities was a topic of intensive debate in Czechoslovakia throughout the 20th century. This topic was popular not only among architects, but most importantly among feminists, social activists, sociologists, politicians or businessmen. Debaters projected onto these houses their ideas of a future political and social system of Czechoslovakia. For some, shared living was a way to facilitate the arrival of communism, for others it represented a means to develop liberal capitalism. This article presents the political framework behind the idea of collective housing in Czechoslovakia.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Eastern European architecture, Cold War architecture, Czechoslovakian modern architecture, Modern housing.

Issue 59
Year 2018
Pages 26-31
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/59.A.RU7AKBT6

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