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.
(De)Segregation
Domesticity
architecture
Socialist Modern
Public Housing
Public Life
This book examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession.
Cover 1
Half Title 2
Series Page 3
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of figures 8
List of contributors 14
Acknowledgments 20
Introduction. Architecture and the Housing Question: Specific Histories 22
PART I: Whose History? Rethinking the Expert 40
1 Housing and History: The Case of the Specific Intellectual 42
2 Humanitarian Homemaker, Emergency Subject: Questions of Shelter and Domesticity 60
3 “Oh, but This Isn’t Architecture!”: The Paradoxical Heritage of French Public Housing 80
PART II: Housing and the State 102
4 Inventing Socialist Modern: Housing Research and Experimental Design in the Soviet Union 104
5 “Production First, Living Second”: Welfare Housing and Social Transition in China 131
6 “Pillars” of the Welfare State: Postwar Mass Housing in Belgium and the Netherlands 148
PART III: (De)Segregation and the Housing Enclave 172
7 Housing the People Who “Lived Free”: Inhabiting Social Housing in the Tin-Can Neighborhood 174
8 Public Life and Public Housing: Charles Moore’s Church Street South 194
PART IV: Land, Property, Colonization 216
9 Landing Architecture: Tropical Bodies, Land, and the Invisible Backdrop of Architectural History 218
10 The Rise and Fall of California City 240
Index 260
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Architecture,Domesticity,Socialist Modern,(De)Segregation,Public Life,Public Housing
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