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"Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects' own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, Activism at Home is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline's tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus--whether at home or elsewhere."--Amazon.com.

Activism at Home' ist eine einzigartige Sammlung von Wohnhäusern, die Architekt*innen für sich selbst gebaut haben - und mit denen sie ihre Kritik an sozialen, politischen und ökonomischen Verhältnissen auf den Punkt bringen. In 30 Fallstudien analysieren Architekturtheoretiker*innen diesen gebauten Aktivismus, vom frühen 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Neben vielen anderen werden die Wohnhäuser von Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati und Kiyoshi Seike vorgestellt. 0Activism at Home bietet mehr als einen historischen Überblick. Die alternativen Wohnformen sind als Reaktion auf steigende Immobilienpreise, wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit und ökologische Entfremdung zu lesen, als Instrumente für die Lösung gegenwärtiger Krisen. Das Buch ist ein Appell an Architekt*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen, die Werkzeuge ihrer Disziplin voll auszuschöpfen und in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Praxis zu rücken - ob zuhause oder anderswo.

Foreword, Stock Orchard Street: activist project / Sarah Wigglesworth

Activism at home: architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics, and resistance / Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye

Paving the way

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones / Isabel Rousset

The house of a modern woman in São Paulo / Silvana Rubio

Shaping modernism in Brussels: through the lens of Victor Bourgeois, Adrien Blomme, and Paul-Amaury Michel and their personal residences / Linsy Raaffels, Inge Bertels, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Barbara Van der Wee

After war: the St Lucia homes of Edwin Hayes and Campbell Scott / Andrew Wilson

A house for everyone: architects challenging the post-war myth of 'the house for the nuclear family' in Japan, 1954-2005 / Cathelijne Nuijsink

Between theory and praxis

Charles W. Moore: a self-portrait in three houses / Richard W. Hayes

Conflicting imaginaries: Lars Lerup's aesthetic dissonance in the plan composition of his suburban bungalow / Luke Tipene

Ralph Erskine: the box and the search for a loyal architecture / Eva Storgaard

Günther Domenig's rational centre: a reading of the Steinhaus / Giacomo Pala

'Our homeland is where we build': Bruno Taut and his house on the Bosphorus / Paolo Ardizzola

Domesticity and public life

House x / Nicholas Boyarsky

'A non-conformist garage': Arthur Erickson at home in the world / Christina Gray

A collective archipelago: Flora Ruchat-Roncati's Cortile in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland / Irina Davidovici, Eliana Perotti

Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: some notes about resistance and performance / Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen

Tomato, acropolis, and the power of family / Farhan Karim

Communal living and collective action

Living as a guest: the hospederías of Ciudad Alberta, Chile / Oscar Andrade Castro, Patricio Cáraves Silva

Housing the farmers of enlightenment / Lee Stickells

Building before theorising resistance: 118 Benaki Street beyond critical regionalism / Stylianos Giamarelos

Creating a 'we': when architects build for themselves, others, and a city in transformation / Max Ott

Resisting from within: the Ita Thao house and settlement as breeding ground for design innovation / Valeria Federighi

Resisting socioeconomic norms and regulations

House in Butantã: the politics of the villa, beyond the privatness of the domestic space / Michele Gentile

C.E.C.A. house: expediting the un-private client / Peter Swinnen

Pliable praxis house / Scott Colman

Good fences make good neighbors (so they say) / Kirsty Volz

Nature, naturism, and lived resistance

The home as refuge: Jul De Roover's cave house in Les Baux, France, the paradox between modernist socialist thought and the bourgeois refuge / Els De Vos, Selin Geerinckx

Naturism at home: building for a new lifestyle / Helena Mattsson

Between Sparta and Sybaris: Bernard Rudofsky's endless search for the ideal home / Pierre Chabard

A bare form of practice: the anthropology and activism of a barefoot architect's own house in a chinese village / Xiang Ren

A secret life... emerging from an urban bolthole / Robert Riddel

Critical retrospection and moving forward: questions that persist / Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye.

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