"Only where comfort ends, does humanity begin" on the "coldness" of avant-garde architecture in the Weimar period

Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 123-143

  Van Herck, Karina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 42449126458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203479476     Document Type: Chapter

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