ABSTRACT
Photography was instrumental in dening the key properties of modern architecture, rather than simply representing them. It disseminated its forms and made it popular and accessible, and in response to the new architecture a distinctive new kind of imagery emerged. A perfect case study of this reciprocal relationship is oered by imagery of the West German bungalow. Dissemination of photography of the bungalow was decisive not only in changing the physical face of the country, but also in establishing a shared vision of the new post war society. In West Germany photography was used, for both commercial and ideological reasons, to suggest that Modernist architecture was accessible to all and could help transform the life of the citizen; this social vision even extended to the formal representation of the state being framed by the informal architecture of the bungalow.
