Socialist Architecture for the Work-From-Home Age
In the 1920s, socialist architect Josef Frank designed homes to maximise freedom – informed by an understanding that workers need the space to separate their work from the rest of their lives.
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Michelle Jackson-Beckett is senior lecturer in design history and theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the archivist of the Victor Papanek Foundation. She is a doctoral candidate in design history at Bard Graduate Centre in New York.
In the 1920s, socialist architect Josef Frank designed homes to maximise freedom – informed by an understanding that workers need the space to separate their work from the rest of their lives.