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Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939 (2015)
Journal Article
Poppelreuter, T. (2015). Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939. Fabrications, 25(1), 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2015.1006761

This paper analyses a selection of houses built by Heinrich Kulka between 1930 and 1939 that were influenced by the spatial design that Kulka termed “Raumplan” in the first monograph on his teacher Adolf Loos in 1931. The exterior organisation and th... Read More about Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939.

Changing places : New Zealand houses by Winkler & Eisenhofer 1958 to 1969 (2013)
Journal Article
Poppelreuter, T. (2013). Changing places : New Zealand houses by Winkler & Eisenhofer 1958 to 1969. Journal of Architecture, 18(6), 875-904. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2013.859167

The Austrian-born architects Erwin Winkler and Fritz Eisenhofer immigrated to New Zealand during the 1950s. After working at the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works, they established a joint architectural practice in 1958 when the growing New Z... Read More about Changing places : New Zealand houses by Winkler & Eisenhofer 1958 to 1969.

Social individualism : Walter Gropius and his appropriation of Franz Müller-Lyer's idea of a new man (2011)
Journal Article
Poppelreuter, T. (2011). Social individualism : Walter Gropius and his appropriation of Franz Müller-Lyer's idea of a new man. Journal of Design History, 24(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epq049

In 1929, Walter Gropius developed the ‘High-Rise Steel Frame Apartment Building’ that was based on theories about the emergence of a New Man put forward by sociologist Franz Müller-Lyer. In his lecture at the Congrès International d’Architecture Mode... Read More about Social individualism : Walter Gropius and his appropriation of Franz Müller-Lyer's idea of a new man.

Das Neue Bauen für den Neuen Menschen. Zur Wandlung und Wirkung des Menschenbildes in der Architektur der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland. (2008)
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Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickeln sich in vielen Bereichen der Kultur und der Gesellschaft Reformbestrebungen aller Art. Die damit verbundene Aufbruchstimmung, die sich nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs und dem Beginn der Weimarer Republik... Read More about Das Neue Bauen für den Neuen Menschen. Zur Wandlung und Wirkung des Menschenbildes in der Architektur der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland..