Activism at Home: Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance

Isabelle Doucet (Editor), Janina Gosseye (Editor)

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Abstract

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 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, 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 discipline’s tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue to bring into focus architecture’s activist practices—whether at home or elsewhere.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherJovis Verlag
Number of pages416
ISBN (Print)978-3-86859-633-5
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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