Activism at Home: Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance
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Author: Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye (eds.)
This title 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 and Kiyoshi Seike.
ISBN 9783868596335. JOVIS. pb. 384 pages. 150 ills. 17 x 24 cm.
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This title 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 and Kiyoshi Seike.
ISBN 9783868596335. JOVIS. pb. 384 pages. 150 ills. 17 x 24 cm.
available