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Discreet Aesthetics: Notes on Heinrich Tessenow’s Architecture and Collective Housing
Discreet Aesthetics: Notes on Heinrich Tessenow’s Architecture and Collective Housing

Author(s): Alessandro Porotto
Subject(s): Architecture, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Art
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: Heinrich Tessenow; collective housing; garden-city; society of Individuals; liquid modernity;

Summary/Abstract: Heinrich Tessenow was born in the city of Rostock in northern Germany, in 1876. He studied at the Technical College in Munich for three years. In 1902, he began teaching at the building trades school in Sternberg, Mecklenburg.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English