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A history of collective living : forms of shared housing
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ISBN: 9783035618501 9783035618686 303561850X Year: 2019 Publisher: Basel : Birkhäuser,

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This book is an in-depth history of collective living from around 1850 until today, identifying three motives for sharing housing -economic, political, and social- and providing detailed analysis of residential projects, which are divided into nine housing models. Through comparison of the reasons for establishment, different ways of use, evolutionary paths, and more, it becomes easy to visualize the various models and projects throughout their history and until today, demostrating how shared everyday life, intimacy in housing, and degrees of public access were shaped throughout Europe. This comprehensive presentation and analysis of typologies, house-holds, and lifestyles is combined with user and expert interviews to create a lexicon on the history of collective living. It is an incisive over-view that explores the architectural, sociological, and economic aspects of collective living.

Architecture and Disjunction
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ISBN: 0262700603 0262200945 9780262200943 9780262700603 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge: MIT Press,

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Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to 1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades -- from deconstructive theory to recent concerns with the notions of event and program.The essays develop different themes in contemporary theory as they relate to the actual making of architecture, attempting to realign the discipline with a new world culture characterized by both discontinuity and heterogeneity. Included are a number of seminal essays that incited broad attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals, as well as more recent and topical texts.Tschumi's discourse has always been considered radical and disturbing. He opposes modernist ideology and postmodern nostalgia since both impose restrictive criteria on what may be deemed "legitimate" cultural conditions. He argues for focusing on our immediate cultural situation, which is distinguished by a new postindustrial "unhomeliness" reflected in the ad hoc erection of buildings with multipurpose programs. The condition of New York and the chaos of Tokyo are thus perceived as legitimate urban forms.

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