" The dialectical evolution of modern architecture in housing and urbanism has reached a point where it is already objectively in contradiction with existing conditions and its societal contents: the resolute no, enunciated by the architectural avant-garde in a world wracked by economic anarchy and catastrophic lack of planning, is an expression of its revolutionary consciousness, as well as an expression of those creations of modern architecture that- despite growing out of the soil of mature capitalist technology- rise in opposition against the particularism and individualism of bourgeois culture and ideology. The modern view, which advocates the principle of collective dwelling in the question of housing and uniformly distributed settlements in the question of the city, is- understood dialectically- a conceptually valid antithesis with respect to the reality and existence of capitalism. By the way, isnt modern architecture, an architecture that lays claim to the revolutionary concept of constructivism and the functionalism of a general plan, nothing other than a utopia transformed into science, and science becoming reality in return?"
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"The functionally differentiated bourgeois house is a negation of the universal primitve dwelling space. The negation of this negation is the universal dwelling space for a single individual in the collective house."
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A machine for living?

The Minimum Dwelling
Karel Teige
originally published as Nejmensi byt, by Vaclav Petr, 1932