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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262367912
Peter Rowe explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing at two crucial moments: the first large-scale developments along modernist lines in the 1920s, and the widespread reconsideration of modernist principles in the 1970s. Starting from the question of how can the design of modern housing can be successful, Peter Rowe explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing at two crucial moments: the first large-scale developments along modernist lines in the 1920s, and the widespread reconsideration of modernist principles in the 1970s. Although the inquiry is conducted along historical and theoretical lines, it proposes to uncover practical principles that may guide the design of modern housing, each principle responding to a contemporary architectural paradox posed by modern conditions. Six detailed case studies form the illustrative centerpiece of the book. Modernity and Housing embraces three more or less parallel themes concerning modernity: the rise of technocracy and the attendant tendency of modern space to become universal while the experience of time is confined to the present; the problem of representation for a culture in which subject-centered reason has replaced metaphysical foundations; and social practices that give rise to urban concentrations and the production of mass housing on an unprecedented scale. Within these themes, the modern experience of space and time philosophically grounds discussion of local and traditional versus universal and novel building practices. The perspective of subject-centered reason grounds the exploration of the use of abstract forms and the comcomitant problem of providing for an expressive architectural language; while the unprecedented quantities of housing production raise the thorny issue of widely defining a normative building program that allows for local particularity. The case studies cover Sunnyside Gardens, New York; Romerstadt, Frankfurt-am-Main; Kiefhoek, Rotterdam; Byker Redevelopment, United Kingdom; Villa Victoria, United States; Malagueira Quarter, Portugal. An appendix contains an annotated and statistical summary of all major housing projects described in the text (about 40) with notes that include the date, size, place, architect, client, housing type, relative densities, and other items of interest.
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0024
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0025
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0026
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0027
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0028
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0029
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0030
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0031
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0032
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0033
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0034
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0035
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262367912
Book: Modernity and Housing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 August 1995
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/4727.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262367912