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Small Interventions : New Ways of Living in Post-War Modernism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (144 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783035607185
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 728/.314094
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Contents:
Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Photo series "living rooms" -- Small interventions and the housing question -- Essay -- The socius of modern architecture spatializing the social and socializing the spatial in CIAM and Team -- "These homes need people, these people need homes". Heritage, modernity, and utility in british housing preservation campaigns -- Wait and see. Why some buildings need time -- Projects -- Project data -- Projects -- Working with the original structure. Restructuring apartments in the post-war modernist suburb of tensta -- The panel remains visible. hHusing diversity in a former prefabricated office building -- Housing quality through optimization and sufficiency. A restrained use of resources -- Approaching buildings from the interior. A new attitude to transformation -- Housing complex as a desire machine. Rethinking living and working -- Revisiting sweden's million program era. Contemporary design strategies for prefabricated structural systems -- Edited standards. A plea for greater individuality in standards -- Toward an expanded spatial syntax. A tool for describing and transforming architectural space -- Transformed modernism, collective modernism. The shift from space-oriented design to political design methods in dealing with existing housing stock -- Authors -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Imprint.
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Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Photo series "living rooms" -- Small interventions and the housing question -- Essay -- The socius of modern architecture spatializing the social and socializing the spatial in CIAM and Team -- "These homes need people, these people need homes". Heritage, modernity, and utility in british housing preservation campaigns -- Wait and see. Why some buildings need time -- Projects -- Project data -- Projects -- Working with the original structure. Restructuring apartments in the post-war modernist suburb of tensta -- The panel remains visible. hHusing diversity in a former prefabricated office building -- Housing quality through optimization and sufficiency. A restrained use of resources -- Approaching buildings from the interior. A new attitude to transformation -- Housing complex as a desire machine. Rethinking living and working -- Revisiting sweden's million program era. Contemporary design strategies for prefabricated structural systems -- Edited standards. A plea for greater individuality in standards -- Toward an expanded spatial syntax. A tool for describing and transforming architectural space -- Transformed modernism, collective modernism. The shift from space-oriented design to political design methods in dealing with existing housing stock -- Authors -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Imprint.

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