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Stresemannstraße 29, 10960 Berlin
As cost of living increases in Berlin, and in other cities around the world,
demand for affordable housing becomes even more pressing. For two days, the
international architecture symposium Min to Max will bring together key
advocates for housing at HAUEINS, Berlin, to discuss how architects can
contribute to a culturally and demographically diverse spatial and urban
typology.
In search of new strategies for housing, Min to Max will revisit a crucial
development of early Modernism: the Minimum Subsistence Dwelling
(Die Wohnung für das Existenzminimum). Formulated at the 2nd CIAM conference, held in Frankfurt in 1929, this doctrine
intended to improve living conditions for the working poor by establishing a
minimum standard necessary for dignified living.
The concept was widely applied in social housing projects after the Second World
War, but with time, its societal perception has completely changed. Today,
eighty years later, the Minimum Subsistence Dwelling sanctions the very social
inequality that its founders sought to overcome. On an urban scale, this split
becomes tangible in the furthering of social segregation in cities.
In response, architects from all over the world are turning their attention once
again to the notion of the Minimum Subsistence Dwelling, developing housing
typologies that are inexpensive, but spatially attractive, and that can be
built all over the city.
But unlike the early Modernists, architects today no longer limit the question
of housing to the individual dwelling; instead, housing is conceived as the
ultimate opportunity for social participation in the spatial fabric of the
city.
International Architecture Symposium
December 10-11 2011
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