All articles about 1930s

Housing in times of crisis

Housing exhibitions present experimental answers to urgent social and economic issues that are related to housing, especially in times of crisis. This makes exhibitions an important link between theory and practice. The ‘growing home’ is an experimental idea that was developed in the 1930s, but it might also be suitable for the current crisis.

At the Limits of Architecture

The Stockholm exhibition of 1930 was an important milestone in the development of Swedish housing. In this article, Creagh shows that the housing designs that were examined in this exhibition focused mainly on the functionalist floor plan. Their obvious lack of economic feasibility made it clear that public housing was not only a market product, but was also subject to socioeconomic laws of its own.

Die Wohnung unserer Zeit

In 1931, amid the economic crisis, the Deutsche Bauausstellung opened in Berlin. It was the result of an initiative started several years beforehand to open a permanent building…

Schaffendes Volk

In 1937, a major exhibition was organized in Düsseldorf, at the site where the Nordpark is currently located. The event took place four years after the National Socialists had seized…

Quartiere Triennale 8

In 1930 the echoes of the 1927 Weissenhof exhibition were received at the fourth edition of the triennial of Monza. The architecture section went beyond the traditional exhibition…

Friluftstaden

During the 1930s and ’40s the Swedish builder and inventor Eric Sigfrid Persson (1898-1983) developed a number of extremely progressive housing projects in Malmö. (Persson invented…