Architecture and Collective Life

ISBN-13: 9780367633912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 326 str.

Penny Lewis; Lorens Holm; Sandra Costa Santos

Opis

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity that both reflects and gives shape to our social relations, public institutions and political processes.

Spis treści

Part I: Contradictions in a common world  1. Introduction  2. A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life  3. Interview with Reinier de Graaf 4. Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism?  5. Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing  Part II: New geography and the planners  6. A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life  7. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia  8. The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value  9. Zero-institution culture  Part III: Authority  10. Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi’s theory of architecture  11. The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline  12. Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity  Part IV: The welfare state  13. Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois’s open-air projects in Belgium  14. Vienna’s Hofe: How housing builds the collective  15. Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness  16. BiG: Living and working together  Part V: Autonomy and organisation  17. Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow  18. Calcutta, India: Dover Lane – a cosmo-ecological collective life of Indian modernity  19. The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses  20. Visions of Ecotopia  Part VI: Practice and life  21. Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares  22. Ethics of open types  23. The Age of Ecology in the UK  24. Opinions – or, from dialogue to conversation  25. Epilogue  The Wally Close  Tenement: The collective close