Housing Architecture And The Edge Condition

Author : Ellen Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351592314

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Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition by Ellen Rowley Pdf

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin’s mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporation built tens of thousands of two-storey houses, developing whole communities from virgin sites and green fields at the city’s edge, while tentatively building four-storey flat blocks in the city centre. Author Ellen Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred. Asking questions around architectural and urban obsolescence, she draws on national political and social histories, as well as looking at international architectural histories and the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain or the symbolisation of the modern dwelling within the formation of the modern nation. Critically, the book tackles this housing history as an architectural and design narrative. It explores the role of the architectural community in this frenzied provision of housing for the populace. Richly illustrated with architectural drawings and photographs from contemporary journals and the private archives of Dublin-based architectural practices, this book will appeal to academics and researchers interested in the conditions surrounding Dublin’s housing history.

Author : Peter G. Rowe
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680874

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Modernity and Housing by Peter G. Rowe Pdf

"This desperately needed book will have special pertinence for the generation that has come of age since the idea of the Great Society withered and has been educated with little notion of the place that intelligently planned urban housing must have in any humane polity. . . . Modernity and Housing also offers a refresher course in the principles behind this century's most noteworthy attempts at establishing new urban communities. Six successful examples in the United States and Europe (three from the 1920s, three from the 1970s) are accorded the same clearheaded analysis in a series of detailed case studies that underscore the multiplicity of options that must be considered in our fragmented society." -- Martin Filler, "New York Times Book Review" Starting from the question of how the design of modern housing can be successful, Peter Rowe explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing at two crucial moments: the first large-scale developments along modernist lines in the 1920s, and the widespread reconsideration of modernist principles in the 1970s. Although the inquiry is conducted along historical and theoretical lines, it proposes to uncover practical principles that may guide the design of modern housing, each principle responding to a contemporary architectural paradox posed by modern conditions. Six detailed case studies form the illustrative centerpiece of the book.

Author : Brian Ward,Michael Pike,Gary Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315442389

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Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980 by Brian Ward,Michael Pike,Gary Boyd Pdf

This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic. Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality, the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural responses to a shifting landscape.

Author : Graham Towers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136391859

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Introduction to Urban Housing Design by Graham Towers Pdf

This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for houses in urban areas, housing design has taken on a new and crucial role in urban planning. This guide introduces the reader to the key aspects of housing design, and outlines the discussion about form and planning of urban housing. Using chapter summaries and with many illustrations, it presents contemporary concerns such as energy efficient design and high density development in a clear and accessible way. It looks at practical design solutions to real urban problems and includes advice on reclamation and re-use of buildings. The guidance it presents is universally relevant. Part two of the book features current case studies that illustrate the best in high density, sustainable housing design providing the reader with design information, and design inspiration, for their own projects.

Author : Stephen H. Kendall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000456660

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Residential Architecture as Infrastructure by Stephen H. Kendall Pdf

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open Building around the world. Countless residential Open Building projects have been built in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in architectural style, building industry methods, economic system and social aims. National building standards and guidelines have been promulgated in several countries (Finland, China, Japan, Korea), providing incentives and guidance to Open Building implementation. Businesses in several countries have begun to deliver advanced FIT-OUT systems both for new construction and for retrofitting existing buildings, demonstrating the economic advantages of ‘the responsive, independent dwelling.’ This book also argues that the ‘open building’ approach is essential for the reactivation of the existing building stock for long-term value, because in the end it costs less. The book discusses these developments in residential architecture from the perspective of an infrastructure model of built environment. This model enables decision-makers to manage risk and uncertainty, while avoiding a number of problems often associated with large, fast-moving projects, such as separation and distribution of design tasks (and responsibility) and the ensuing boundary frictions. Residential Architecture as Infrastructure adds to the Routledge Open Building Series, and will appeal to architects, urban designers, researchers and policy-makers interested in this international review of current projects, policies and business activities focused on Open Building implementation.

Author : Alejandro Bahamón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9812450815

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Houses on the Edge by Alejandro Bahamón Pdf

Author : Marjorie Bulos,Necdet Teymur
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004463076

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Housing by Marjorie Bulos,Necdet Teymur Pdf

This book approaches housing from urban, architectural, psychological and cultural points of view with an emphasis on the problems of design, research and education. It is multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural and aims to assert the importance of housing socially and academically.

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty,Sabine T. Kriebel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000584288

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Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design by Kathleen James-Chakraborty,Sabine T. Kriebel Pdf

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing, typography, and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world, but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding, many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, photography, and architectural history.

Author : Clare Cooper Marcus,Wendy Sarkissian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520908796

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Housing As If People Mattered by Clare Cooper Marcus,Wendy Sarkissian Pdf

From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies. Signs of life and care for the environment abound. Innumerable social and physical clues communicate to visitors and residents alike a sense of home and neighborhood. This is a place that people are proud of, a place that children will remember in later years with nostalgia and affection, a place that just feels "good." Contrast this with Southside Village. Something does not feel quite right. It is hard to find your way about, to discern which are the fronts and which are the backs of the houses, to determine what is "inside" and what is "outside." Strangers cut across what might be a communal backyard. There are no signs of personalization around doors or on balconies. Few children are around; those who are outside ride their bikes in circles in the parking lot There are few signs of caring; litter, graffiti, and broken light fixtures indicate the opposite. There is no sense of place; it is somewhere to move away from, not somewhere to remember with pride. These are not real locations, but we have all seen places like them. The purpose of this book is to assist in the creation of more places like Green Acres and to aid in the rehabilitation of the many Southside Villages that scar our cities. This book is a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. It is intended as a reference tool, primarily for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations-anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing. It provides guidelines for the layout of buildings, open spaces, community facilities, play areas, walkways, and the myriad components that make up a housing site.

Author : Steven Holl
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1878271563

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Pamphlet Architecture 13: Edge of a City by Steven Holl Pdf

Pamphlet Architecture was begun in 1977 by William Stout and Steven Holl as an independent vehicle for dialogue among architects, and has become a popular venue for publishing the works and thoughts of a younger generation of architects. Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. The modest format of the books in the Pamphlet Architecture Series belies the importance and magnitude of the ideas within.

Author : Eugene Henry Klaber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0656122919

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Housing Design (Classic Reprint) by Eugene Henry Klaber Pdf

Excerpt from Housing Design The attempt here is to express and illustrate these principles so that those who design housing may have them as a background and can go forward with their work without too much stumbling over details and the consequent waste of time. This is no encyclopedia of housing, nor does it pretend to give final answers to the complex problems of housing design, many of which arise from economic and social conditions beyond the designer's control. It will accomplish its purpose if it prepares de signers to cope with those problems with awareness of the ways and needs of human living, if it prepares men and women who have inquisi tive minds and who develop their own methods of attack. A word to students. In housing, every act and decision affects the lives of others and may continue to do so for decades, hence clear think ing and intellectual honesty are essential. Simple as this may seem, clear thinking is extremely difficult in an age of advertising slogans and high pressure salesmanship which try to force one's thinking into certain channels and often to sell an inferior product by a formula of laudatory words. How many enriched foods have added nutritive value which is but a fraction of what the processor has extracted initially? This method of using cliches to sell goods to the public is also present in the field of architecture. Half the words which are bandied around in the name of modern architecture at cock tail parties are of this kind. No great art was ever created or fostered by words; it has always arisen out of work in the shop. We must there fore try to judge things for what they are, rather than by the words that are currently used about them. I shall content myself with citing three examples of contemporary architectural cliches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : K. Hadjri,L. Madrazo, I.O. Durosaiye
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781784662202

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Global Dwelling by K. Hadjri,L. Madrazo, I.O. Durosaiye Pdf

A selection of papers from the proceedings of the Third OIKONET Conference is contained in this book. OIKONET is a European project co-funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) with the purpose of studying contemporary housing from a multidisciplinary and global perspective by encompassing the multiple dimensions which condition the forms of dwelling in today’s societies: architectural, urban, environmental, economic, cultural and social. Following on from the first two OIKONET conferences held respectively in Barcelona, Spain in 2014 and Bratislava, Slovakia in 2015, the third conference took place in Manchester, the UK in 2016. Providing a valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and others with an interest in housing studies, the papers included in this book cover three themes, namely sustainability of housing environments, innovation in housing design and planning, and participation in housing design and construction.

Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135802431

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Housing Design Quality by Matthew Carmona Pdf

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.

Author : Sven Sterken,Eva Weyns
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462703094

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Territories of Faith by Sven Sterken,Eva Weyns Pdf

A novel and interdisciplinary perspective on post-war church building In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting the rich palette of strategies and methods deployed by congregations, dioceses, government bodies, and private patrons in their attempt to secure a religious presence in the rapidly modernising world, Territories of Faith offers a broad view of the practice of religion and its material expression in the fast-evolving (sub)urban landscapes of post-war Europe.

Author : Jeremy Till,Tatjana Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315393568

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Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till,Tatjana Schneider Pdf

Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams provide fascinating detail and allow direct visual comparisons to be made. Combining history, theory and design the book explains the social and economic benefits that can be achieved and shows the various ways it has been and can be delivered. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed today to achieve adaptable and ultimately sustainable buildings. Housing designers, housing managers and students of architecture, construction and housing will find this book of immense value both as a comprehensive reference and design manual.