Detailansicht
Activism at Home
Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance
ISBN/EAN: 9783868596335
Umbreit-Nr.: 9849494
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 416 S.
Format in cm: 2.4 x 24 x 17
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 23.08.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
- Zusatztext
- Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects own dwellings purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms ofactivism at homefrom 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, and Kiyoshi Seike, as well as 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 disciplines tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue to bring into focus architectures activist practiceswhether at home or elsewhere.