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Home to 20 million people and still growing, Greater Cairo mirrors the global phenomenon of unplanned urban growth. Approximately 60 percent of the population of Africa’s biggest city lives in so-called informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concrete-and-brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert or on former agricultural land. 'Housing Cairo: The(...)
Housing Cairo: the informal response
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Home to 20 million people and still growing, Greater Cairo mirrors the global phenomenon of unplanned urban growth. Approximately 60 percent of the population of Africa’s biggest city lives in so-called informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concrete-and-brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert or on former agricultural land. 'Housing Cairo: The Informal Response' illuminates the architecture of informality and its mechanisms of production through a series of theoretical essays and architectural design proposals. Central to the project is a re-examination of the concept of “informality” itself and its often negative connotations.
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Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. A Mediterranean version of "informal" urbanism prevalent throughout the so-called developing world, ''Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens'' reassesses the explosive growth of post-war Athens through its most distinctive building type,(...)
Builders, housewives, and the construction of modern Athens
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Sprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. A Mediterranean version of "informal" urbanism prevalent throughout the so-called developing world, ''Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens'' reassesses the explosive growth of post-war Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikia, a small-scale multi-storey apartment block (from poly meaning "multiple" and oikos meaning "house"). Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikia as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the post-war urban economy, triggering the city's social mid-twentieth century transformation, enabling the migrants who poured into Athens to become urban citizens, aspiring to a modern life. The interiors of the polykatoikia apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikia interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives ?and the shape of the post-war city.
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Vision and reality
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This book presents a wide selection of interviews and photographs from the collaborations between Willats and residents in the many housing estate projects he makes. The first-hand observations and individual opinions, from the past four decades, record a variety of attitudes and perceptions towards the physical reality of their surroundings. Created outside of the norms(...)
Vision and reality
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This book presents a wide selection of interviews and photographs from the collaborations between Willats and residents in the many housing estate projects he makes. The first-hand observations and individual opinions, from the past four decades, record a variety of attitudes and perceptions towards the physical reality of their surroundings. Created outside of the norms and conventions of an object-based art world, the projects in this book, mainly on estates in and around London, but also in Bath, Leeds, Milton Keynes and Oxford, highlight the realities of everyday life in both tower blocks and low-rise planned housing.
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Project APTM 200 Multihabitas: the polyvalent living unit had been presented during Salon Construmat - Fira de Barcelona, from May 14 to 19, 2007.
Project APTM 2007: a house is many houses
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Project APTM 200 Multihabitas: the polyvalent living unit had been presented during Salon Construmat - Fira de Barcelona, from May 14 to 19, 2007.
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Time builds!
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A study of PREVI after more than three decades since its formulation seeks not only to salvage the original construction along the lines of an 'archaeological' survey, which reclaims the authorial oeuvre hidden behind the constant interventions on the part of its occupants, but aims to call into question the idea of housing as a habitational solution, the role of the(...)
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Time builds!
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A study of PREVI after more than three decades since its formulation seeks not only to salvage the original construction along the lines of an 'archaeological' survey, which reclaims the authorial oeuvre hidden behind the constant interventions on the part of its occupants, but aims to call into question the idea of housing as a habitational solution, the role of the architect in the process and the materials of the design as scarce resources. To salvage the idea of neighbouring units, the rapport between public and communal space, the values and possibilities of a more open city planning and the different family structures against the actual standardisation of the user.
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Housing move on
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‘Housing Moves On’ starts where ‘Housing is Back’ left off two years ago in the discussion of the challenges of housing construction in the 21st century. The book discusses luxurious individual projects, temporary housing and the challenges posed by the dissolution of traditional social maxims of ‘social housing’. Peter Ebner compiled residential projects by 26(...)
Housing move on
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‘Housing Moves On’ starts where ‘Housing is Back’ left off two years ago in the discussion of the challenges of housing construction in the 21st century. The book discusses luxurious individual projects, temporary housing and the challenges posed by the dissolution of traditional social maxims of ‘social housing’. Peter Ebner compiled residential projects by 26 internationally acclaimed architects including the work of Kengo Kuma, Kazujo Sejima, Francis Soler, Christian Sumi, Helena Paver Njiric etc. Each project is presented with a short description, scaled planning drafts (1:200 and 1:500) and numerous illustrations.
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John Turner's classic essay now in its fourht edition makes a unique contribution to housing theory and practice. His three Laws of Housing summarize the psychological, social and economic basis of his thesis: 1. When people have no control over, nor responsibility for, key decisions in the housing process, dwelling environments may become a barrier to personal(...)
Housing by People: towards autonomy in building environments
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John Turner's classic essay now in its fourht edition makes a unique contribution to housing theory and practice. His three Laws of Housing summarize the psychological, social and economic basis of his thesis: 1. When people have no control over, nor responsibility for, key decisions in the housing process, dwelling environments may become a barrier to personal fulfilment and a burden on the economy. 2. The important thing about housing is not what it is, but what it does in people's lives. 3. Deficiencies and imperfections in your housing are infinitely more tolerable if they are your responsibility than if they are somebody else's.
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This book contains a selection of 83 collective housing works carried out in Spain between 1929 and 1992. It offers a detailed version of the residence projected in Spain between the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929 and the Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992. Two particularly significant dates, two points of inflection in architectural thought: the(...)
Collective housing / Vivienda collectiva en Espana
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This book contains a selection of 83 collective housing works carried out in Spain between 1929 and 1992. It offers a detailed version of the residence projected in Spain between the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929 and the Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992. Two particularly significant dates, two points of inflection in architectural thought: the enthronement and the epilogue of modernity. It contains plans of all buildings redrawn and with different scales depending on whether it is the urban implementation, the definition of the block or the description of the types, with photos of the time and cards with the main data of each project and its Author. The research process reconstructs the evolution of the project to extract its main values as a tool for the city and contemporary housing.
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This book chronicles a 10-year study conducted by architect, educator and urban planner Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, in which she studies the informal settlements of underprivileged communities in Brazil by inhabiting the spaces herself. This research underscores labor as the key factor determining the nature of such spaces.
Housing shaped by labour: the architecture of scarcity in informal settlements
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This book chronicles a 10-year study conducted by architect, educator and urban planner Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, in which she studies the informal settlements of underprivileged communities in Brazil by inhabiting the spaces herself. This research underscores labor as the key factor determining the nature of such spaces.
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Using the case study of Moravia, Colombia, this book presents an alternative approach to urban planning for similar neighborhoods, focusing largely on the participation of local residents. Essays and international examples of this method contextualize the Moravia project.
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mars 2019
Moravia manifesto: coding strategies for informal neighbourhoods
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Using the case study of Moravia, Colombia, this book presents an alternative approach to urban planning for similar neighborhoods, focusing largely on the participation of local residents. Essays and international examples of this method contextualize the Moravia project.
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