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Architecture and the Housing Question

 
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Publisher: Routledge
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Short description:

Aimed at students and scholars in architecture, architectural history, theory, and urban studies, Architecture and the Housing Question examines the nexus of architecture, social housing, and politics.

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Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession. 


How have architects acting as housing experts helped alleviate or enforce class, race, and gender inequality? What are the disciplinary implications of taking on shelter for the multitude as an architectural assignment and responsibility? The book features essays in the historiography of architecture and the housing question, and a collection of historical case studies from Belgium, China, France, Ghana, the Netherlands, Kenya, the Soviet Union, Turkey, and the United States. The thematic organization of the collection, interrogating housing expertise, the state apparatus, segregation and colonialism, highlights the methodological questions that underpin its international outlook.   


The book will appeal to students and scholars in architecture, architectural history, theory, and urban studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Architecture and the Housing Question: Specific Histories Can Bilsel and Juliana Maxim  Part One. Whose History? Rethinking the Expert  1. Housing and History: The Case of the Specific Intellectual Reinhold Martin  2. Humanitarian Homemaker, Emergency Subject: Questions of Shelter and Domesticity Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi  3. "Oh, but This Isn?t Architecture!": The Paradoxical Heritage of French Public Housing Sandra Parvu and Alice Sotgia  Part Two. Housing and the State  4. Inventing Socialist Modern: Housing Research and Experimental Design in the Soviet Union Daria Bocharnikova  5. "Production First, Living Second": Welfare Housing and Social Transition in China Samuel Y. Liang  6. "Pillars" of the Welfare State: Postwar Mass Housing in Belgium and the Netherlands Miles Glendinning  Part Three. (De)Segregation and the Housing Enclave  7. Housing the People Who "Lived Free": Inhabiting Social Housing in the Tin-Can Neighborhood K?vanç K?l?nç and M. Melih Cin  8. Public Life and Public Housing: Charles Moore?s Church Street South Patricia A. Morton  Part Four. Land, Property, Colonization  9. Landing Architecture: Tropical Bodies, Land, and the Invisible Backdrop of Architectural History Ijlal Muzaffar  10. The Rise and Fall of California City Shannon Starkey  Index