The Minimum Dwelling

The long-awaited English-language publication of Karel Teige's influential book on the minimum dwelling as a new housing type for the working class.Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of avant-garde modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in his native Czechoslovakia. His Minimum Dwelling, originally published in Czech in 1932, and appearing now for the first time in English, is one of the landmark architectural books of the twentieth century.