El Lissitsky Quote

In the future it will be necessary on the one hand to establish a balance between the intimate and individualistic demands for housing, and on the other to take full account of general social conditions. Thus, for example, cooking should be transferred from the private single kitchen into the communal cooking laboratory; the main meal should be consumed in public eating establishments; and the rearing of children should become the responsibility of the kindergarten or the school... Presently our goal is the transition from housing as an agglomeration of many private dwellings to housing communes.


in: 'Communal Housing' - 'Rußland: Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion' (1929)


In the future it will be necessary on the one hand to establish a balance between the intimate and individualistic demands for housing, and on the...

In the future it will be necessary on the one hand to establish a balance between the intimate and individualistic demands for housing, and on the...

In the future it will be necessary on the one hand to establish a balance between the intimate and individualistic demands for housing, and on the...

In the future it will be necessary on the one hand to establish a balance between the intimate and individualistic demands for housing, and on the...