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1 electronic resource (281, K 34 pages) :
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illustrations, maps, plans.
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE:
"This PhD dissertation analyses the West-German modernist bungalow, a formative type of postwar single-family home that has so far only been discussed academically by way of individual examples. The introduction begins with the state of research on the global history of bungalow culture (esp. its origin in colonial India and the genesis of the Western bungalow in the UK and the US). This is complemented by an overview of architectural modernism’s political connotations and the history of the single-family home in Germany before 1945, and the sociological circumstances of the bungalow boom in post-war West-Germany, e.g. die ideology of the middle-class society.
The dissertation’s main part presents the research findings of an analysis of 64 exemplary West-German bungalows 1952-1969. Chosen and classified by way of a systematic literature review, these 64 bungalows are represented in the final section as a catalogue raisonné of the West-German bungalow. The main part starts with an elaboration of the specifically West-German concept of the post-war term Bungalow: the superimposition of the term bungalow with contemporary architectural modernism. Three phases of West-German bungalow boom are identified: 1. The period of latency 1948-54 when West-German publications of international models like Richard Neutra’s Californian houses prepare the genesis of West-German bungalow architecture. 2. The pivotal and defining period 1952-69 when modern bungalows were built and published in West-Germany. 3. The period of popularisation 1963-1982 when modern bungalow architecture was realised in large quantities.
Subsequently, the research findings about the analysed bungalows are explicated, firstly with regard to their iconography, materiality and structural aspects as much as their typology and relationship to nature. It is demonstrated that the iconographical representation of West-German bungalow as a glazed pavilion is a medial construction. For this phenomenon, the term ‘the pavilionisation of the bungalow’ is introduced. The medial construction misappropriates the Janusfacedness of the West-German bungalow type. A much more closed façade towards the street is as characteristic of the type as the glazed garden façade. Despite their distinct relationships to the garden, all three bungalow types identified in this analysis (corner type, oblong type, courtyard type) exhibit this external duality.
The main part concludes with the research findings that address the bungalow’s historic connotations. In architectural history, the bungalow is received through concepts that grant it relevance in the context of architectural modernism, e.g. the concept of the pavilion glazed on all sides or the ‘fluid’ or universal space. However, the cultural history illustrates that it is the residential character -- especially the synthesis of larger, more ‘fluid’ spaces with smaller, more functional individual rooms -- that turned the scalable bungalow model into an ideal house type for a wide range of home-owners. Easy to identify as a type and difficult to judge in its size, the low modern bungalow became symbol of a levelled middle-class society in post-war West-Germany."
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DISSERTATION NOTE: Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktorin der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.), Universität Kassel, 2016.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE:
TEIL 1 :
* Einführung :
Einleitung --
Internationale Referenzen : der historische Bungalow und die amerikanische Wohnhausmoderne bis Anfang der sechziger Jahre --
Deutscher Kontext : zur Geschichte des modernen Einfamilienhauses und der Nachkriegsbundesrepublik --
* Der westdeutsche Bungalow 1952–1969 :
Bautyp und Begriff : zur Geschichte des westdeutschen Bungalows --
Ikonografie und Denotation : das pavillonisierte Bild des Bungalows und die materielle Wirklichkeit seiner Architektur --
Historische Konnotationen : der Bungalow als Objekt der Architekturmoderne und seine soziale Geografie --
Zusammenfassung --
Ausblick und Verzeichnisse --
TEIL 2 :
* Katalog : 64 westdeutsche Bungalows 1952–1969.
Language:
German
Keywords:
Academic theses
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Case studies
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2016083150789
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