Title & Author:

Activism at home : architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics, and resistance / Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, [2021]
©2021

Description:

416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword, Stock Orchard Street: activist project / Sarah Wigglesworth -- Activism at home: architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics, and resistance / Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye -- Paving the way -- Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones / Isabel Rousset -- The house of a modern woman in São Paulo / Silvana Rubio -- Shaping modernism in Brussels: through the lens of Victor Bourgeois, Adrien Blomme, and Paul-Amaury Michel and their personal residences / Linsy Raaffels, Inge Bertels, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Barbara Van der Wee -- After war: the St Lucia homes of Edwin Hayes and Campbell Scott / Andrew Wilson -- A house for everyone: architects challenging the post-war myth of 'the house for the nuclear family' in Japan, 1954-2005 / Cathelijne Nuijsink -- Between theory and praxis -- Charles W. Moore: a self-portrait in three houses / Richard W. Hayes -- Conflicting imaginaries: Lars Lerup's aesthetic dissonance in the plan composition of his suburban bungalow / Luke Tipene -- Ralph Erskine: the box and the search for a loyal architecture / Eva Storgaard -- Günther Domenig's rational centre: a reading of the Steinhaus / Giacomo Pala -- 'Our homeland is where we build': Bruno Taut and his house on the Bosphorus / Paolo Ardizzola -- Domesticity and public life -- House x / Nicholas Boyarsky -- 'A non-conformist garage': Arthur Erickson at home in the world / Christina Gray -- A collective archipelago: Flora Ruchat-Roncati's Cortile in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland / Irina Davidovici, Eliana Perotti -- Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: some notes about resistance and performance / Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen -- Tomato, acropolis, and the power of family / Farhan Karim -- Communal living and collective action -- Living as a guest: the hospederías of Ciudad Alberta, Chile / Oscar Andrade Castro, Patricio Cáraves Silva -- Housing the farmers of enlightenment / Lee Stickells -- Building before theorising resistance: 118 Benaki Street beyond critical regionalism / Stylianos Giamarelos -- Creating a 'we': when architects build for themselves, others, and a city in transformation / Max Ott -- Resisting from within: the Ita Thao house and settlement as breeding ground for design innovation / Valeria Federighi -- Resisting socioeconomic norms and regulations -- House in Butantã: the politics of the villa, beyond the privatness of the domestic space / Michele Gentile -- C.E.C.A. house: expediting the un-private client / Peter Swinnen -- Pliable praxis house / Scott Colman -- Good fences make good neighbors (so they say) / Kirsty Volz -- Nature, naturism, and lived resistance -- The home as refuge: Jul De Roover's cave house in Les Baux, France, the paradox between modernist socialist thought and the bourgeois refuge / Els De Vos, Selin Geerinckx -- Naturism at home: building for a new lifestyle / Helena Mattsson -- Between Sparta and Sybaris: Bernard Rudofsky's endless search for the ideal home / Pierre Chabard -- A bare form of practice: the anthropology and activism of a barefoot architect's own house in a chinese village / Xiang Ren -- A secret life... emerging from an urban bolthole / Robert Riddel -- Critical retrospection and moving forward: questions that persist / Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye.

Summary:

"Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects' own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, Activism at Home is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline's tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus--whether at home or elsewhere."--Amazon.com.
Activism at Home' ist eine einzigartige Sammlung von Wohnhäusern, die Architekt*innen für sich selbst gebaut haben - und mit denen sie ihre Kritik an sozialen, politischen und ökonomischen Verhältnissen auf den Punkt bringen. In 30 Fallstudien analysieren Architekturtheoretiker*innen diesen gebauten Aktivismus, vom frühen 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Neben vielen anderen werden die Wohnhäuser von Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati und Kiyoshi Seike vorgestellt. 0Activism at Home bietet mehr als einen historischen Überblick. Die alternativen Wohnformen sind als Reaktion auf steigende Immobilienpreise, wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit und ökologische Entfremdung zu lesen, als Instrumente für die Lösung gegenwärtiger Krisen. Das Buch ist ein Appell an Architekt*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen, die Werkzeuge ihrer Disziplin voll auszuschöpfen und in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Praxis zu rücken - ob zuhause oder anderswo.

ISBN:

9783868596335 paperback
386859633X paperback

Subject:

Architects Homes and haunts.
Architect-designed houses History 20th century.
Architect-designed houses History 21st century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture and society History 21st century.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Histoire 20e siècle.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic

Added entries:

Doucet, Isabelle, editor.
Gosseye, Janina, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316841
Call No.: 6841316841
Status: Available