VOLUME 21 THE BLOCK

Description

Vast urbanisations in developed, developing and under-developed economies have one common denominator: an immediate need for quality housing. Never before were those involved in architecture and building construction confronted with such a challenge – the housing of millions. A one-fits-all solution seems unthinkable since most mass-housing schemes in the past failed, in part because they originated from dictatorship or total absence of power. Based on the analysis of one of the housing experiments of the past, the Soviet Microrayon, Volume proposes a new prototype – a housing block, which is custom-made but mass-produced and conceived via open source standards.

CONTENTS

-World Apartment Living / Simon Pennec
-World Housing Shortage / Simon Pennec
-Blocks / Michael Wolf
-Microrayon: Transformations of the Soviet City Under Capitalism / Bart Goldhoorn, Alexander Sverdlov
-Open City: The Soviet Experiment / Anna Bronovitskaya
-Industrialised Building Speech, 1954 / Nikita Khrushchev
-Comments on Khrushchev’s Speech / Bart Goldhoorn
-Microrayon Handbook / Dimitrij Zadorin
-Mass Housing in France / Simon Pennec
-Microrayon / Aleksei Naroditski
-War of the Blocks / John Howard, Ron Smith, Tom Frame
-Gated Communities in Warsaw / Maria Lewicka, Katarzyna Zaborska
-Rumors about life in Leipzig Grünau / Ines Weizman
-Mass Housing Guide / Henry Ng / Simon Pennec
-Block City / Bart Goldhoorn
-Mass Housing on the Silver Screen / Simon Pennec
-Standards, Classes, Formats / Bart Goldhoorn
-Rooftop Hop / Students MaHKU
-Open Building A La Russe / Bart Goldhoorn
-Comments on Goldhoorn 1 / Theo Deutinger
-Comments on Goldhoorn 2 / Bert de Muynck
-Area Development 2.0 / Interview with Friso de Zeeuw
-Art or Craft / Rob Dettingmeijer
-L.A. Collective / Supersudaca Reports #1
-Vitality Through Free Spirits / Interview with Pi de Bruijn
-The Average European / Theo Deutinger
-Collectivity, or Why Can’t Just All Get Along? / Leslie Kavanaugh
-Isa Andreu vs. Gropiusstadt / Isa Andreu
-Le Plus Grand Nombre / Dirk van den Heuvel
-Societies o Rejected Standards / James C. Scott
-Microrayon Living / Partizan Publik

176 pages / 20 x 27 cm