Abstract The proto-sociologist Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl is best known in architectural history for the popularity that his organicist-functionalist dictum of “building from the inside out” received in early twentieth-century German architectural culture. However, less is known about Riehl’s own writing on architecture in the context of his sociological theories. This paper discusses the importance of Riehl’s thoughts on domestic architecture in giving theoretical elaboration to what, in the mid-nineteenth century, was a growing intellectual concern over the social position of workers. As the “worker” emerged as a distinct social type, and workers’ welfare registered as an increasingly pressing issue, Riehl’s call for a sociologically oriented understanding of architecture (capable of reforming the worker “from within”) significantly altered the terms of the debate over housing policy in Germany. In examining his theoretical elaboration of the task of social policy and the role of architecture within it, this paper reads Riehl’s work as a prelude to a new kind of logic about architecture’s social agency that would come to underpin modern housing reform.

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工人之家

摘要 原始社会学家威廉·海因里希·里尔 (Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl) 在建筑史上最为人所知，因为他的“由内而外的建筑”的有机主义-功能主义格言在 20 世纪早期的德国建筑文化中广受欢迎。然而，在他的社会学理论的背景下，人们对里尔自己关于建筑的著作知之甚少。本文讨论了里尔关于家庭建筑的思想在对 19 世纪中叶日益增长的对工人社会地位的智力关注进行理论阐述方面的重要性。随着“工人”成为一种独特的社会类型，工人的福利成为日益紧迫的问题，里尔呼吁以社会学为导向对建筑的理解（能够“从内部”改造工人）显着改变了德国住房政策辩论的条款。在检查他对社会政策任务和建筑在其中的作用的理论阐述时，本文将 Riehl 的作品解读为一种关于建筑社会能动性的新逻辑的序幕，这种逻辑将成为现代住房改革的基础。