Contested legacies : critical perspectives on post war modern housing /
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, th...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The past and future of postware housing estates: facts, heritage, project / Andrea Migotto and Martino Tattara
- Part 1. The modern housing project is a social project: a critical reading
- Chapter 1. Social housing and the regimes of time :a few moments within the long lines of (social) housing in Vienna and Austria / Michael Klein
- Chapter 2. Too Big? Debunking scale myths with the London County Council Architect's Department. / Jesse Honsa
- Chapter 3. A social critique of the large-scale modern housing project. / Martino Tattara
- Part 2. Interpretations of the "unbuilt" space: forms, categories, and terms / Federico Coricelli and Nicola Russi
- Chapter 5. The common space project: the case of Latin American neighbourhood units / Umberto Bonomo
- Part 3. Agents mean histories: accounting for multiple experiences and agencies in postwar housing estates
- Chapter 6. Living together: (the multiple) "stories" of an ordinary housing development in post-WWII Turin / Gaia Caramellino
- Chapter 7. Gossip and complaint: ways of (re-)producing the social in housing "expertly" / Heidi Svenningsen Kajita
- Part 4. Cultures of transformation
- Chapter 8. Housing complexes in Brazil / Flávia Brito do Nascimento
- Chapter 9. Modernism is dead, long live modernity: the Bijlmer and the project of "incompleteness" / Andrea Migotto