TY - GEN
T1 - "Today's child is tomorrow's state"
T2 - 14th International Docomomo Conference - Adaptive Reuse: The Modern Movement Towards the Future
AU - Allweil, Yael
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Pola Virgioli, 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper explores the kibbutz children's house as a unique modern institution designed to house and educate kibbutz children and form them into a model "children's society" that would serve as foundation for the aspired-for nation state. I study this modern institution by examining the formation of the children house building type in kibbutz Beit-Alpha 1925-1929, accepted as cornerstone of kibbutz social-material structure by all 270 kibbutzim. Rather than a typological examination, my paper conducts close historical account of the formation of the first children's house as modern building type and its first implication in the spatial and aesthetic language of the Modern Movement in architecture. The highly ideological Beit-Alpha commune perceived childhood as the nexus for forming the radically new communal-national society they aspired for, forming a child-centered society embedded in the children's house as emblem of the radically-new kibbutz social and spatial form. Beit-Alpha therefore insisted on collective care for children as "property" and responsibility of the entire community and allocated its best resources for good care of the children in the only permanent, well-lit, ventilated and serviced structure in their settlement. As a building type, the children's house entailed removing children from their parents' dwellings in tents and shacks across the settlement and housing them in a separate structure serving both dwelling and education in order to provide them good material conditions at times of austerity. Design of the new house involved a long process of negotiations between the commune, architect-planner Richard Kauffmann and the Jewish National Fund that cemented kibbutz commune and its children as equal partners in the design process who embed their ideology and agenda into modern architecture. The children's house marked the kibbutz movement as a child-centered society, whose monument is a unique modern building and building type.
AB - This paper explores the kibbutz children's house as a unique modern institution designed to house and educate kibbutz children and form them into a model "children's society" that would serve as foundation for the aspired-for nation state. I study this modern institution by examining the formation of the children house building type in kibbutz Beit-Alpha 1925-1929, accepted as cornerstone of kibbutz social-material structure by all 270 kibbutzim. Rather than a typological examination, my paper conducts close historical account of the formation of the first children's house as modern building type and its first implication in the spatial and aesthetic language of the Modern Movement in architecture. The highly ideological Beit-Alpha commune perceived childhood as the nexus for forming the radically new communal-national society they aspired for, forming a child-centered society embedded in the children's house as emblem of the radically-new kibbutz social and spatial form. Beit-Alpha therefore insisted on collective care for children as "property" and responsibility of the entire community and allocated its best resources for good care of the children in the only permanent, well-lit, ventilated and serviced structure in their settlement. As a building type, the children's house entailed removing children from their parents' dwellings in tents and shacks across the settlement and housing them in a separate structure serving both dwelling and education in order to provide them good material conditions at times of austerity. Design of the new house involved a long process of negotiations between the commune, architect-planner Richard Kauffmann and the Jewish National Fund that cemented kibbutz commune and its children as equal partners in the design process who embed their ideology and agenda into modern architecture. The children's house marked the kibbutz movement as a child-centered society, whose monument is a unique modern building and building type.
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M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th International Docomomo Conference - Adaptive Reuse: The Modern Movement Towards the Future
SP - 202
EP - 207
BT - Proceedings of the 14th International Docomomo Conference - Adaptive Reuse
A2 - Tostoes, Ana
A2 - Ferreira, Zara
PB - Docomomo
Y2 - 6 September 2016 through 9 September 2016
ER -