Alfred Browning Parker's "Tropex-pansible Home" illustrates his interest in developing a minimum, but flexible and expandable, house for the postwar nuclear family. The project follows prewar explorations in minimal living spaces carried out by German Bauhaus architects, under the term "existenzminimum." Parker's small pavilion with a shed roof served as a platform for additions as a family grew.

Courtesy of Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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