CONTENTS
Translator's Foreword vii
Translator's Introduction xi
Foreword 1
1.Introductory Remarks: Toward a Dialectic 9
of Architecture and a Sociology of Dwelling
2. The Housing Crisis 32
3. The International Housing Shortage 62
4. Modern Architecture and Housing in Czechoslovakia 98
5. The Face of the Contemporary City 106
6. Dwelling and Household in the Nineteenth Century 158
7.The Evolution of Dwelling Types and Contemporary Housing Reform 177
8. Model Settlements and Housing Exhibitions 185
9. The Modern Apartment and the Modern House 216
10. The Minimum Dwelling 234
11. Low-, Medium-, or High-Rise Houses? 273
12. Modern Site Planning Methods 302
13. Toward New Forms of Dwelling 323
14. The Antithesis between City and Country 394
15. Conclusion 399
Other Publications by Karel Teige 405
Name Index 409