An inquiry on bourgeois conception of social housing program for working-class: Karl Marx Hof in Vienna

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This thesis focuses on the architectural production of Red Vienna in 1920s to examine the bourgeois conception of social housing program in a governmental socialist understanding of housing. Having a structural transformation through the First World War, Vienna became the enclave of Socialist Democrat Party and thereafter underwent radical housing and cultural transformative programs. Within these programs, it was intended to give the working-class the accurate social position by means of provided accessibility to their own private and public spheres. Among a wide range of housing examples built during the governance of the party, Karl Marx Hof, one of the largest projects, has been chosen to examine the reflections of bourgeois conception of culture. Based on the contradictory discourse and practices in political, architectural and cultural realms, the aim of the research is to redefine the privacy of the dwellings and the public qualities of the common spaces and thereafter to situate the proletarian housing in relation to bourgeois spatial values within the history of domestic space in Vienna.

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Apartment houses

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20901

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İ. Sudaş, “An inquiry on bourgeois conception of social housing program for working-class: Karl Marx Hof in Vienna,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2011.