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Interview: Raquel Rolnik, by Nicole van Roij.As architect and urban planner, she has been deeply involved in policies concerning social housing for several decades. During 2008-2014 she was the UN special reporter on the Right to Adequate Housing.…View →
Diamond in the Rough, Forever Young, by Jonas Althuis.While social housing corporations are required by law to offer residents alternative housing in such a situation, this is not guaranteed to be near their original homes, tearing apart long-standing communities of residents.…View →
The Hot and Cold of Disseminating, by Tuyen Le.Ethel Baraona Pohl of dpr-barcelona sees the practice of writing about architecture as means to create new narratives that tie it with other fields such as daily lives, politics, social issues, and the economy.…View →
Shifting Utopias, by Federico Ruiz.They were dreaming of a new democratic [society] with the emphasis on social housing and better cities.”.…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.If we consider the political backgrounds of the renaissance, classicism, neo- classicism, modernism and post-modernism, it is clear that each is driven by varying political and social climates.…View →
A Lack of Exposure, by Alessandro Rognoni.This year however, the photographs met by ordinary newspaper readers and social media were strangely unfashionable. Ruault’s images are in fact different from most of his fellow photographers in the industry.…View →
Missing Urbanists, by Federico Ruiz.Now, it is Rotterdam, with its large amount of high-rise buildings, social housing, museums and all kinds of different activities going on all day, that represents the place where “Chances and opportunities are way bigger.”.…View →
Soviet Dreams, by Jānis Bērziņš.This started a housing crisis in the Soviet Union because at the same time the Communist Party had declared that every Soviet citizen had a right to live in an apartment with the necessary amenities. However, the reality was far from the dream.…View →
Missed Takes on Gender in Architecture, by Julia Korpacka.With my intervention, I took the liberty to become interactive with the aforementioned part of the exposition with non-destructive means (think of it as a Photoshop mask) to spark the discussion the organisers aimed for outside of my social circle and…View →
A subjective take on greenwashing, by Katarzyna Soltysiak and Ecaterina Stefanescu.This, to me, is greenwashing at a deeper level: on paper, a project is “green”; but, together with its overall context – physical, economic, social, etc. - these mega-projects are actually green merely in colour.…View →
Explore Lab Fictions, by Camille Billottet, Anne de Zeeuw & Aimee Baars.I remember growing up in social housing in France and hearing my mother describe our home as a rabbit cage, making us rabbits go to work and then come back to their cages.…View →
Interview: The Book and The Building, by Louis Lousberg, Koen Mulder & Christopher Clarkson.For example in the 50s it was about social housing, Architecture as a social tool to make a better society.…View →
Incredible Nottingham, by Dorsa Ghaemi, Francien Fons, Jolt Wiersma and Sun Ah Hwang.Named after Minister of Health and Housing at the time, Dr Christopher Addison.…View →
If not now, then when?, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren & Gigi Altman.Almost all the projects I've seen from these Design Academy Eindhoven students were socially engaged. If you google for "engaged architects", then you get few results.…View →
By Product, Reversibility, Tangible and Intangible Longevity , by Anouk Fontaine.During the 1980s, idealistic modernists believed architecture would redeem the world and be the solution to various socio-economic issues.…View →
The American Dream is hyper-real in Florida!, by Tuyen Le.The essence of New Urbanism is a controlled homogeneity that is upheld with rules and regulations, where one can be scrutinized and fined if their house is painted in a colour unapproved by the housing association.…View →
Writing Urban Places, by Nicole van Roij.The skill of literary writers to portray social issues and distinctive communities is insightful for understanding the social life and communities in cities. Narrative is addressed as a way to empower communities in medium-sized cities.…View →
A Crisis of Imagination, by Joost Hoepman.Major environmental and social challenges such as climate change, agriculture, public housing, energy and healthcare compete for our attention, not to mention the recent pandemic that acted as a catalyst for turning the way we live totally upside down…View →
Shooting at the Verge, by Alessandro Rognoni.In a city at its first intense encounter with modernity, Fellini found an eccentric social sphere made of artists, comedians and writers; a society of intellectual silliness against the political purity of the regime.…View →
Ark[s], by Aikaterina Myserli.In the case of Syrian refugees in Greece, even though the Greek government has provided this kind of temporary housing to the tens of thousands trapped in the country by the EU-Turkey agreement, many of these camps do not meet accepted humanitarian standards…View →
Inclusive Design is the Norm, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.The American equivalent, Spirit Day, originated in 2010 to show solidarity to gay youth, as the attention on social media was focused on their high suicide rates.…View →
Modernism's Secret in the East, by Badar Haq.Other exceptions are the blocks of the government centre – Red Zone - in the northern part, housing the parliament, ministries and other governmental organisations.…View →
Local Liability, by Alessandro Rognoni.When looking for a place to live, I decided to move with two friends in a former council-owned estate (public housing in British terms) in Church street, a decades-old marketplace squeezed between the higher end quarters of Marylebone and Maida Vale.…View →