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Austrian Association for Settlements and Small Gardens

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The Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association (German: Österreichische Verband für Siedlungs- und Kleingartenwesen, OVSK) was an organisation established following the First World War to support people in need of housing and the allotment movement principally in and around Vienna.[1]

The organisation was founded by Otto Neurath in 1921.[2]

OVSK was the basis for the Museum für Siedlung und Städtebau ('Museum for Settlement and Town Planning').[2] Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky described her experiences working for the OVSK in her book Warum ich Architektin wurde (Why I Became an Architect).

References

  1. ^ Vossoughian, Nader (2008). Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis. The Hague: NAi. ISBN 978-90-5662-350-0.
  2. ^ a b Burke, C. (2013). "The Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien [Social and economic museum of Vienna] 1925–1934". In Burke, C.; Kindel, E.; Walker, S. (eds.). Isotype: Design and contexts 1925–1971. London: Hyphen Press.