When Architecture Meets Activism
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When Architecture Meets Activism
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Author : Roger Guy
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-11-22
When Architecture Meets Activism written by Roger Guy and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Social Science categories.
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban poor. However, during the 1960s, New Left planners and architects began working with marginalized groups in cities to design alternatives to urban renewal projects. This was part of a national advocacy planning movement that was taking shape in urban areas like Chicago. Inspired by critics of the Rational-comprehensive model of planning, advocacy planners opposed the imposition of projects on neighborhoods often with no collaboration from residents. One example of this resistance was Hank Williams Village—a multi-purpose housing and commercial redevelopment project modeled after a southern town. The Village was an attempt to prevent the displacement of thousands of southern whites by the planned construction of a community college in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. While the plan for the Village failed to win support of the local urban renewal board, the work performed by the young VISTA architects became instrumental in their subsequent career trajectories and thus served as formative personal and professional experience.
Architecture Activism
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Author : GRAFT
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Architecture Activism written by GRAFT and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Architecture categories.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, GRAFT is a global architectural practice which now maintains branches in Berlin and Beijing. The international practice, which is involved in architectural, urban, and product design – as well as branding – is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication will document only projects characteristic of this social responsibility – it portrays architecture as an active tool for driving, in a global context, the development of places worth living in. One key project is the Solar Kiosk developed in 2012, a high-output, solar-based unit which is already used by many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to secure their power supply.
Architecture Activism
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Author : Lars Krückeberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05
Architecture Activism written by Lars Krückeberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05 with Architecture categories.
The international practice GRAFT is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication documents projects characteristic of this social responsibility portraying architecture as an active tool for driving the development of places worth living in. One key project is the Solar Kiosk, a high-output, which is already used by many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Activism At Home
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Author : Isabelle Doucet
language : en
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Release Date : 2021-07
Activism At Home written by Isabelle Doucet and has been published by Jovis Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with categories.
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.
Activism In Architecture
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Author : Margot McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Activism In Architecture written by Margot McDonald and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Architecture categories.
This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009), and the environmental awareness events that took hold in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, the book assembles essays which closely examine Hay's contribution to architecture and the work of those who directly and tangentially were affected by it. The book also offers insights into the role of passive energy design today. Appealing to researchers, architects and students interested in architecture and design technology, Activism in Architecture explores the role of passive environmental inventions as an active agent in shaping socio-political debates.
Activism In Architecture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Activism In Architecture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Design Activism
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Author : Alastair Fuad-Luke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Design Activism written by Alastair Fuad-Luke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Architecture categories.
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.
Architects After Architecture
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Author : Harriet Harriss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Architects After Architecture written by Harriet Harriss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Architecture categories.
What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing buildings. In this volume, we meet forty practitioners through profiles, case studies, and interviews, who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis, work with refugees, advocate for diversity, start tech companies, become leading museum curators, tackle homelessness, draft public policy, become developers, design videogames, shape public discourse, and much more. Together, they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged, expanding the limits of the discipline, and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change, you’ll find this an encouraging and inspiring read. Please visit the Architects After Architecture website for more information, including future book launches and events: architectsafterarchitecture.com
Expanding Architecture
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Author : Bryan Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Expanding Architecture written by Bryan Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al.
Apparatus X
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Author : Aaron Wertman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Apparatus X written by Aaron Wertman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Activism has been tied to architecture in the modern era since the socio-political upheaval of the 1960s. Today, the itinerant activist architect has emerged as an alternative to office-bound practice. Typically defined as one who uses design as a tool for political change, immediate response, and/or in reaction to man-made or natural catastrophe, an activist architect can be more simply described as one who takes architectural practice with him/her, commits to a community, and engages with that community's building needs. While it is still essential for the activist architect to possess formal design skills, knowledge of design process and craft, be well practiced in communicating ideas, and to promote ethics, safety, and responsibility, they must also cultivate knowledge and skills gained through informal experience -- immersion in community, collaborative communication, thriftiness and inventiveness, trust-building. What, in addition to building, drawing, design, craft knowledge, and experience, enables the activist arch to engage in a meaningful way? The activist architect must be a facilitator, enhancing the inherent desire in every community to create a built environment reflective of their values and needs.Despite the rise of student interest in humanitarianism and social consciousness, and the profession's promotion and commendations of the "citizen architect," the formal curriculum of today's architectural education system (NAAB-centric) does little to educate or prepare students to be activists. If the activist architect is created through the combination of informal experience, immersion, compassion, sympathy, understanding, holistic thinking, proper application of skills, resourcefulness, politics, and formal training, how does one prepare for those things educationally? Furthermore, how does formal and informal knowledge, professional training, and experience get to communities in need in order to facilitate change?Apparatus X, the design/build project informed by this thesis, is both an educational preparation and a response to the needs of an itinerant activist architect. It is a self-sufficient, mobile design/construction studio designed to serve the essentials of architectural activism -- responsiveness, tools/knowledge transmission, and the establishment of relationships where knowledge sharing, design-as-dialog, and community engagement occur. This unit becomes part of the community, placing the activist architect exactly where they need to be in order to commune with their neighbors and collaborators. By empowering the autonomous re-development of a community through self-progressive architectural activism, the rebuilding process and the architect's role changes. It evolves from that of a removed designer to an engaged activist and community member.Three physical spaces designed into the mobile unit are critical to facilitating re-building efforts: tooling workshop, design studio, and relatable space open to public. In these spaces within the mobile unit, tangible and intangible deliverables are brought into the community: tools, knowledge, and empowerment through reciprocal re-building. With a prepared physical presence, the activist architect and his/her community can engage in design activities and tasks together -- WITH the community rather than FOR the community. In this way, there is reciprocity in learning that provides local knowledge and direct feedback to the activist architect, creating an environment of effective design and engagement for the betterment of communities and individuals in need.For me, as a student of architecture and a person who has been involved in community re-building, Apparatus X is a tool of anticipation -- a tool designed for engagement; a tool prepared to address unknown factors that shape re-building efforts -- and so I go forth, armed with this physical manifestation of architectural activism, prepared to facilitate change.