Interview: “The single-family home is a sexist form of living”

DJan Engelke's life takes place in the big city – but his interest lies in the areas around it: the single-family home settlements in the suburbs and in the countryside. The architect also researches and teaches at the Chair of Urban Design at the Technical University of Munich. For him it's about the houses, but above all about the people who live in them: how the ideal of having their own house with a garden is instilled in them and how they then grow old there on far too much space. But things cannot continue like this in the midst of the housing crisis, says Engelke. But how can it be better? Time for a conversation about grandma's house and living arrangements of the future.