Una Casa Para Habitar

The original book collected a detailed description of the house that Bruno Taut built for his family in Berlin in 1926. It includes detailed drawings, many photographs and text explaining his strategies and functional characteristics of the spaces.nThe elapsed time has allowed many of the proposals Taut to have taken home later in the design of contemporary housing, and are no longer surprising; although there are things that even today remain striking; but the content that really justifies the reissue of this work, and makes it useful, is the attitude that Taut proposed to the architect’s work in general but especially when designing a house; a house to “dwell”, a term to which he attributes specific value; and whose meaning is somehow picked up with an idea repeated several times: the house must be for the user as personal or adjusted to his life as his own shirt.nThe Spanish edition of this book is a tribute to Taut and an attempt to regain his figure, and also a way to publicize and make useful his teachings and earnest efforts to give life to a new way of understanding housing, as the seed of a new society.