Housing loops : opulence, precarity, dignity, prosperity and fraternity / a+t research group, Javier Mozas, Aurora Fernández Per.

Main entry:

Mozas, Javier, author.

Title & Author:

Housing loops : opulence, precarity, dignity, prosperity and fraternity / a+t research group, Javier Mozas, Aurora Fernández Per.

Publication:

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain : a+t architecture publishers, [2025]

Description:

471 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-471) and indexes.

Summary:

"This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing. Rather than being organised around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity. Drawing on 178 case studies--ranging from the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century to the second decade of the twenty-first--this critical chronology maps the evolution of collective housing in relation to the social demands of each historical period. The timeline identifies key patterns in housing design, recurring spatial loops that transcend eras, advances in construction technologies, and the transformation of the domestic unit as a nucleus of cohabitation. In Housing Loops, the past and present of collective housing are represented simultaneously, revealing unexpected connections between projects and architects who, across different contexts, have shared the aspiration to offer shelter, to conceive housing as a complex artefact where form, time and space converge, and which, beyond fulfilling individual needs, seeks to emerge as a collective proposition for living together."-- Front cover flap.

ISBN:

9788409714353
8409714353

Subject:

Apartment houses History Case studies.
Housing History Case studies.
Housing development History Case studies.
Architecture and society.
Immeubles d'habitation Histoire Études de cas.
Promotion résidentielle Histoire Études de cas.
Architecture et société.
Architecture and society History.
Architecture, Domestic History.
Housing History.
Housing development History.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Fernández Per, Aurora, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324106
Call No.: 324106
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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