Housing the future : alternative approaches for tomorrow / editors, Graham Potts, Rachel Isaac-Menard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potts, Graham, editor.

Isaac-Menard, Rachel, editor.

Series:

Housing the future series / series editor, Graham Cairns. Housing the future

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Faringdon, [England] : Libri Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Housing The Future - Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading practicing architects with academics from seven countries and teams of international students. World leaders in the field of residential design, such as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman, present built projects whose design criteria and aims they lay out in text. Academics from the UK, the USA, Spain, Germany and elsewhere follow these project descriptions with extended essays from a more theoretical perspective but remain focused on the realities of practice. Finally, ideas on current housing problems from the next generation of designers are brought together in student projects from Europe and North America.

Contents:

Intro

HOUSING THE FUTURE

Imprint

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Dr Graham Cairns

SECTION 1: PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Sustainable Community in Komoka, Ontario, Canada

Avi Friedman Consultants

Via Verde and New Housing Solutions in New York City

Grimshaw

Eusebio Alonso García Architects

SECTION TWO: THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL ESSAYS

Hope for Better Things: Housing Market Failure in Detroit

GARY SANDS

OBSOLESCENCE OF SPANISH POSTWAR SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATES - MISMATCHES WITH CONTEMPORARY NEEDS

Carlos García Vázquez

CHASING THE GRAIL: RECONCILING PRIORITIES TO IMPROVE NEW HOUSING

CHARLIE SMITH

Actions to Recover the Absent City - Simultaneity and Hyper Socialization - Strategies of Intervention in a Neighbourhood on the Periphery

EUSEBIO ALONSO GARCÍA

Dwelling in Permanent Ephemerality: the Residential Areas of Paphos

Georgios Artopoulos and Ioannis A. Pissourios

Architectural Flexibility and Affordability in Housing

Avi Friedman

From Housing as a Verb to Housing as a Product. Contemporary Tendencies in Hispano-American Metropolitan Regions - a Focus on Lima and Madrid

KATHRIN GOLDA-PONGRATZ

Section Three: Student Design Projects

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valladolid

Eusebio Alonso García

School of Art and Design

Ian Wroot

School of Architecture, Land and Environmental Sciences

Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura

Amadeo Ramos, Miguel Ángel de la Cova

and Alfonso Guajardo

School of Architecture and Society

Guya Bertelli

department of Urban Studies and Planning in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wayne State University

Gary Sands

Urban Agglomerations - Master Programme

Kathrin-Golda Pongratz and Michael Peterek

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-9933706-4-0

0-9933706-3-2