Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Masters of Environmental Design Theses Yale School of Architecture 5-2020 Heimat im Wartezimmer: Architecture, Identity, and Migration in a Socialist Model City Holly Bushman Yale University,
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[email protected]. Heimat im Wartezimmer: Architecture, Identity, and Migration in a Socialist Model City Holly M. Anderson Bushman B.S. Bates College, 2016 A thesis submitted to the faculty of the Yale School of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of: Master of Environmental Design Yale University May 2020 _________________________________________ Keller Easterling Principal Advisor and M.E.D. Program Chair _________________________________________ Elihu Rubin Reader Abstract: Eisenhüttenstadt, the first “socialist model city” designed and constructed in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), provides an opportunity to scrutinize the relationship between state conceptions of architectural design and national identity in the early 1950s. Known as Stalinstadt until 1961, the community was founded in eastern Brandenburg in 1950 as housing for workers at the nearby ironworks Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost “J.