Home and Community: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme

ISBN-13: 9780367607104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 124 str.

Sandra Costa Santos; Nadia Bertolino; Stephen Hicks

Opis

This cross-disciplinary book broadens our understanding of home and community. Based on an empirical study of Claremont Court in Edinburgh, designed by Basil Spence, it explores how residents create homes and articulate a sense of belonging.

Spis treści

1. Home and community: issues of public concern at the turn of the 1960s in Britain 2. Claremont Court: Looking Back at Home and Community Design 3. Constructing a Sense of Home: Negotiating Meanings Embedded in Architecture 4. Atmosphere: Reflecting on the Embodied and Sensory Experience of Architecture 5. Belonging and the Temporal Dimensions of Architecture 6. Conclusion: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme on Home and Community

O autorze

Sandra Costa Santos is an architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the University of Northumbria’s Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project “Place and Belonging: what can we learn from Claremont Court housing scheme?” Her work explores the social dimensions of architecture.

Nadia Bertolino is an architect and Research Fellow in the University of Northumbria’s Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne. Her research includes collective urban spaces, community regeneration and collective housing.

Stephen Hicks is a social worker and Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the University of Manchester’s School of Health Sciences, Manchester, UK. He is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded “Place and Belonging” project. His work researches families, social change and communities.

Camilla Lewis is an anthropologist and Research Associate in the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences, Manchester, UK. Her research centres around urban change, belonging and community, and the influence of material culture and social inequalities on urban regeneration.

Vanessa May is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences, Manchester, UK. She is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded “Place and Belonging” project. Her work researches the various dimensions of belonging, and nonbelonging.