Space for Hygiene in Housing Architecture

In this paper, the author focuses on spaces used for personal hygiene—the bathroom. The paper begins with a description of the hygienic movement in the late 19th century. At that time, urinating took place in semi-public spaces outside the dwelling. Today, the WC has moved well into the dwelling, and in many dwellings, the bathroom has developed as the most private space. Thus, the bathroom can be regarded as the last domain of privacy in today’s housing, and in a number of new dwellings this quality is exploited in new ways. The development of “space for hygiene” in the 20th century will be studied by analyzing the spatial organization of dwellings