Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype
dc.contributor.advisor | Wharton, Annabel | |
dc.contributor.author | Dillon, Jennifer Reed | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-01-02T16:33:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-01-02T16:33:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-12-14 | |
dc.department | Art History | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation documents and analyzes the architecture of the working-class bathhouse - its emergence in the nineteenth-century and revision and continued elaboration in the twentieth. It is a case study that examines how social ideas about modernity, health, and the body were translated into the built environment at a formative moment in Western urbanization. The first two chapters take a transnational perspective, with a survey of several urban centers (London, New York, Montreal). Chapter Three and Four focus in on Berlin as the central case study. The hygiene movement was deeply concerned with the built environment from its inception. Concepts of circulation and order were imbued with powerful health values, producing designs for the bathhouse that emphasized separation, regulation and a radically simplified space. Changing concepts of public life and the civic body shaped architectures of hygiene and inflected their decorative programs. A historical, spatial narrative of architecture and the body politic is opened up by a history of the bathhouse, which crosses Old World-New World, Historicist-Modernist, and Wilhelmine-Weimar boundaries. | |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Art history | |
dc.subject | Architecture | |
dc.subject | European history | |
dc.title | Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype | |
dc.type | Dissertation |
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