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Activism at Home

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Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by archit...
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  • 10 September 2021
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Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from 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, Kiyoshi Seike, and 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 discipline’s tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus—whether at home or elsewhere.
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Price: $49.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: JOVIS
Imprint: JOVIS
Publication Date: 10 September 2021
Trim Size: 9.40 X 6.70 in
ISBN: 9783868596335
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, City & town planning: architectural aspects
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