Document Type
Article
Date
9-2009
Keywords
Architecture; Architecture and Women; Housing; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; May, Ernst; Schutte-Lihotzky, Margarete
Language
English
Disciplines
Architectural History and Criticism | Architecture | Urban Studies and Planning
Description/Abstract
'A key effort on the behalf of women's emancipation in Weimar Germany, and one of the most overlooked and least successful, was to create affordable housing for the vast and growing ranks of single women,' made so as a result of casualties in World War I. On the work of Grete Schütte Lihotzky, Ernst May, Anton Brenner, Eugen Kaufmann, Bernhard Hermkes, and others.
Recommended Citation
Henderson, Susan, "Housing the Single Woman: The Frankfurt Experiment" (2009). School of Architecture - All Scholarship. 5.
https://surface.syr.edu/arc/5
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional Information
Appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v. 68, number 3, September 2009, pp. 358-377, photographs, plans, site plans, axonometric drawings