Between conventional and experimental: Mass housing and prefabrication in modernist architecture
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Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly(...)
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Between conventional and experimental: Mass housing and prefabrication in modernist architecture
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Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.
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This reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. ''Housing'' proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered(...)
Housing strategies for urban redensification
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This reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. ''Housing'' proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past century—all of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017. These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban housing is inextricably bound with the inception and progression of modernism.
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"The State of Housing Design 2023" is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical issues as they relate to residential design. This volume examines recently built housing projects of notable design that address issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism. Through critical essays, visual(...)
State of Housing Design, Report 2023
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"The State of Housing Design 2023" is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical issues as they relate to residential design. This volume examines recently built housing projects of notable design that address issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism. Through critical essays, visual content, and a crowdsourced survey of responses, it provides both designers and the general public with an overview of the forces at play in contemporary design of housing. ''The State of Housing Design'' series is published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies, a research center affiliated with the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, that has produced analyses of housing markets and policy for over sixty years.
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This issue explores the intersection of available resources and creative finesse in architecture as a critical response to environmental demands. Ten international architecture firms, including Lütjens Padmanabhan, Raamwerk, and Vivas Arquitectos, demonstrate how stripping away unnecessary layers yields powerful results and imparts identity to the final outcome. Their(...)
a+t 61: Frugality. Resources and Finesse
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This issue explores the intersection of available resources and creative finesse in architecture as a critical response to environmental demands. Ten international architecture firms, including Lütjens Padmanabhan, Raamwerk, and Vivas Arquitectos, demonstrate how stripping away unnecessary layers yields powerful results and imparts identity to the final outcome. Their projects showcase simple constructions that transform industrialized assembly into personalized architectural patterns.
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Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the(...)
The HOME House Project : the future of affordable housing
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Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this project challenged designers and architects to imagine a world in which sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, technologies, and techniques were considered important elements of housing for low- and moderate-income families. A SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 colour illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution.
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Written by an architect who has been designing and building affordable housing for thirty years, this well-illustrated book is both a call to create well-designed places for the homeless and a review of innovative and successful building designs that now serve diverse communities across the United States. Sam Davis argues for safe and functional architectural designs and(...)
Designing for the homeless : architecture that works
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Written by an architect who has been designing and building affordable housing for thirty years, this well-illustrated book is both a call to create well-designed places for the homeless and a review of innovative and successful building designs that now serve diverse communities across the United States. Sam Davis argues for safe and functional architectural designs and programs that symbolically reintegrate the homeless into society in buildings that offer beauty, security, and hope to those most in need. Davis presents a new perspective, considering the personal concerns of the homeless, the social costs of homelessness, and organizational and design issues. He examines problems of community fit and site planning, building design and orga-nization, and interior layout and suggests how to weigh costs and optimize expenditures. He asks and answers a range of challenging questions: What is possible and desirable when designing a new facility for the homeless? Should it be elegant or unassuming? What types of spaces should be included? How should it look and what should it feel like? Should it be more like a house or more like a dormitory? What is the proper balance between function, quality of construction, and architectural delight? Designing for the Homeless recounts how various communities have addressed the problem of housing the homeless, beginning with one of the most ambitious plans, the St. Vincent de Paul Village in San Diego, which opened in 1987. Davis vividly recounts the plight of those who become homeless.
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In view of the growing number of diverse life styles, the search for flexible, adaptable floor plans has become a fundamental issue in residential building. That the continued demand in urban centres can only be responsibly satisfied by high-density housing is undisputed. More than ever before, building high-density housing is a complex, diverse and challenging task for(...)
High-density housing: Concepts, planning, construction
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In view of the growing number of diverse life styles, the search for flexible, adaptable floor plans has become a fundamental issue in residential building. That the continued demand in urban centres can only be responsibly satisfied by high-density housing is undisputed. More than ever before, building high-density housing is a complex, diverse and challenging task for planners and architects. This book presents international projects which document the breadth and complexity of the task, from the design of the floor plans, the development and use of resources, to the use of economically beneficial building systems. The high quality of the architecture and construction in such residential areas can be clearly seen in the uniform illustrations of the floor plans, and large-scale drawings of details which facilitate comparison. The introductory contributions discuss extensively the difficult and provocative topic of floor plan design and development. This book is a comprehensive review of the current state of residential building, the perspectives, trends and future developments.
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En vue de bâtir, concrètement et immédiatement, une société modèle, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, l'inventeur du célèbre poêle en fonte, associe de manière inédite le travail, le capital et le talent. Parce qu'il y a là une tentative de vivre et de travailler autrement, parce qu'il y a là une utopie, l'oeuvre de Godin interpelle. Une série d'articles, de récits et de(...)
Habiter l'utopie : le familistère Godin à Guise
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En vue de bâtir, concrètement et immédiatement, une société modèle, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, l'inventeur du célèbre poêle en fonte, associe de manière inédite le travail, le capital et le talent. Parce qu'il y a là une tentative de vivre et de travailler autrement, parce qu'il y a là une utopie, l'oeuvre de Godin interpelle. Une série d'articles, de récits et de témoignages complète ce volume en rendant compte des jugements émis par les chroniqueurs, des réformateurs sociaux ou des écrivains parmi lesquels compte Émile Zola, au regard de l'expérience novatrice et audacieuse de Godin
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This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.
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Courtyard housing : past, present & future
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This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.
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Ten projects by Spanish architects have been selected from more than thirty restricted competitions under the auspices of the EMV in recent years. The five projects by foreigh architects are some of the EMV commissions that have involved the mediation of a Spanish architect in the course of the process.
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Metropolitan housing Madrid 15 housing projects - 15 proyectos de vivienda E.M.V
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Ten projects by Spanish architects have been selected from more than thirty restricted competitions under the auspices of the EMV in recent years. The five projects by foreigh architects are some of the EMV commissions that have involved the mediation of a Spanish architect in the course of the process.
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