Karl-Marx-Hof
Karl-Marx-Hof, or *Karl Marx Court*, is a Gemeindebau built as social housing on a scale meant to change everyday life. Spanning about 1,100 metres and extending across four tram stops, it was constructed between 1927 and 1930 by city planner Karl Ehn, a follower of Otto Wagner, and it contains 1,382 apartments. The complex occupies a 156,000 square-metre site where only 18.5% is covered by buildings; the rest is laid out for play areas and gardens, designed for roughly 5,000 residents. This is why the building is more than long mass housing: within it are laundromats, baths, kindergartens, a library, doctors’ offices, and business offices. In 1934, during the February Uprising of the Austrian Civil War, insurgents barricaded themselves inside, and the site was bombarded by the Austrian army, police, and the right-wing Heimwehr—damage that had to be repaired after the war. …
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