1st Edition

The Berlin Tenement and the City

By Katharina Borsi Copyright 2025
182 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin’s standard housing type and its principal urban component – the city’s ubiquitous typology. In contrast to earlier historical categorizations of the tenement as a ‘rental barrack,’ here it is described as an evolving typology that dynamically responded to the... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: The Hobrecht Plan and the Berlin Tenement: A New Spatial Field

Chapter 3: Porosities and Intensities: Luisenstadt’s Industrial Typo-morphologies

Chapter 4: Moabit and the Modest Tenement 

Chapter 5: The Move to the West: Charlottenburg and the South-West 

Chapter 6: Legacies and Continuities of the Tenement  

Index

Biography

Katharina Borsi is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham. Previously, she held appointments at the Architectural Association and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. She trained as an architect at the Technical University Berlin and the Bartlett School of Architecture and holds a PhD in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism from the AA. She is the editor of Housing and the City (Routledge 2022), Inhabitation, Housing and the City (Special Edition of the Journal Architecture and Culture 10:3/2022) and Architectural Type and the Discourse of Urbanism (Special Edition of the Journal of Architecture 23:7–8/2018).