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Architecture and Collective Life This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity that both reflects and gives shape to our social relations, public institutions and political processes. Written by an international range of contributors, the chapters address the intersection of public life and the built environment around the themes of authority and planning, the welfare state, place and identity and autonomy. The book covers a diverse range of material from Foucault’s evolving thoughts on space to land-scraping leisure centres in inter-war Belgium. It unpacks concepts such as ‘community’ and ‘collectiv- ity’ alongside themes of self-organisation and authorship. Architecture and Collective Life reflects on urban and architectural practice and historical, political and social change. As such this book will be of great interest to students and academics in architecture and urbanism as well as practicing architects. Penny Lewis is Programme Lead for the University of Dundee and Wuhan University Architectural Studies Programme, a job which involves teaching in China. From 1999 to 2007 she was editor of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine and a regular contributor to national papers and architectural journals. Her PhD on The impact of eco- logical thought on architectural theory from 1968 remains an ongoing research interest alongside work on the city. Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Ur- ban Research at the University of Dundee, where he runs the design research unit rooms+cities. His written work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectiv- ity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. Publications include Brunelleschi Lacan Le Corbusier (2010) and, with John Hendrix, Architecture and the Unconscious (2016). His papers have appeared in Architecture and Culture, ARQ, Journal of Architec- ture, Perspecta, Critical Quarterly, Architecture Theory Review, and Assemblage. Sandra Costa Santos is an architect and academic with research in the fields of ar- chitectural theory and architectural design with a particular interest in housing and the home. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee. Critiques: Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association Series Editor: Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham) Editorial Board: Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh) Murray Fraser (University College London) Hilde Heynen (Catholic University of Leuven) Andrew Leach (University of Sydney) M. Christine Boyer (Princeton University) Jane Rendell (University College London) Adam Sharr (Newcastle University) Igea Troiani (University of Plymouth) This original series of edited books contains selected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences. Each year the event has its own thematic focus while sharing an interest in new and emerging critical research in the areas of architectural history, theory, culture, design and urbanism. Volume 6: Architecture and Field/Work Edited by: Suzanne Ewing, Jérémie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie Volume 7: Scale Edited by: Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Gordana Fontana-Giusti Volume 8: Peripheries Edited by: Ruth Morrow and Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem Volume 9: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence Edited by: Ines Weizman Volume 10: Transgression: Towards an Expanded Field of Architecture Edited by: Louis Rice and David Littlefield Volume 11: Industries of Architecture Edited by: Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff and Nick Beech Volume 12: This Thing Called Theory Edited by: Teresa Stoppani, George Themistokleous and Giorgio Ponzo Volume 13: Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies Edited by Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting Volume 14: Architecture, Festival and the City Edited by Jemma Browne, Christian Frost and Ray Lucas Volume 15: Architecture and the Smart City Edited by Sergio M. Figueiredo, Sukanya Krishnamurthy and Torsten Schroeder Volume 16: Architecture and Collective Life Edited by Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm and Sandra Costa Santos AHRA provides an inclusive and comprehensive support network for humanities researchers in architecture across the UK and beyond. It promotes, supports, develops and disseminates high-quality research in all areas of archi- tectural humanities. www.ahra-architecture.org Architecture and Collective Life Edited by Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm and Sandra Costa Santos First published 2022 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm and Sandra Costa Santos; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm and Sandra Costa Santos to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lewis, Penny (Penny R.), editor. | Holm, Lorens, editor. | Costa Santos, Sandra, editor. | Architecture & Collective Life (Conference) (2019: University of Dundee) Title: Architecture and collective life / edited by Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm and Sandra Costa Santos. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Critiques: critical studies in architectural humanities; volume 16 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021009429 (print) | LCCN 2021009430 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367633912 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367633905 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003118985 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Architecture and society—Congresses. Classification: LCC NA2543.S6 A62723 2022 (print) | LCC NA2543.S6 (ebook) | DDC 720.1/03—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009429 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009430 ISBN: 978-0-367-63391-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-63390-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-11898-5 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003118985 Typeset in Univers by codeMantra On the eve of the outbreak of Covid19 the AHRA held a conference in Dundee exploring the relationship between architecture and collective life. The conference was advertised to a wide range of academic disciplines, to practicing architects and to other professionals and activist interested in the built environment. Contents List of figures x List of contributors xv Acknowledgements xx Part I Contradictions in a common world 1 1 Introduction 3 Penny Lewis 2 A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life 13 Joan Ockman 3 Interview with Reinier de Graaf 31 4 Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism? 42 Jodi Dean 5 Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing 55 Martino Tattara Part II New geography and the planners 69 6 A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life 71 Claudia Dutson 7 Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia 82 Ross Exo Adams, Tahl Kaminer, Maroš Krivý, Leonard Ma, Karin Matz, Timothy Moore, Helen Runting and Rutger Sjögrim vii Contents 8 The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value 90 Aleks Catina 9 Zero-i nstitution culture 102 Louis D’A rcy- Reed Part III Authority 113 10 Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi’s theory of architecture 115 Will Orr 11 The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline 123 Joseph Bedford 12 Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity 145 Doreen Bernath Part IV The welfare state 157 13 Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois’s o pen-a ir projects in Belgium 159 Marie Pirard 14 Vienna’s Höfe: How housing builds the collective 170 Alessandro Porotto 15 Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness 182 Lydia Xynogala 16 BiG: Living and working together 195 Meike Schalk, Sara Brolund de Carvalho and Helena Mattsson Part V Autonomy and organisation 205 17 Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow 207 Jane Clossick and Ben Colburn 18 Calcutta, India: Dover Lane – a cosmo- ecological collective life of Indian modernity 218 Dorian Wiszniewski 19 The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses 228 Janina Gosseye viii Contents 20 Visions of Ecotopia 238 Meredith Gaglio Part VI Practice and life 249 21 Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares 251 Alberto Altés Arlandis and Oren Lieberman 22 Ethics of open types 260 Davide Landi 23 The Age of Ecology in the UK 274 Penny Lewis 24 Opinions – or, from dialogue to conversation 284 Teresa Stoppani 25 Epilogue 293 Penny Lewis and Vicky Richardson The Wally Close 305 Robert Wightman Tenement: The collective close 309 John Joseph Burns Index 317 ix
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