Under Pressure - Essays on Urban Housing

Under Pressure gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation.

List of contents

Introduction
00. Urban Housing Under Pressure
Hina Jamelle
Part 1: Learning from History
01. Future Histories
Kutan Ayata
02. Living Off the Land
Scott Erdy
03. The Value of a Home: A Critical Approach to Local Practice
Brian Phillips
04. Tectonics and Urban Identity
Neil Denari
Part 2: Changing Domesticities
05. New Domesticities, New Realities
Clifford Pearson
06. Empowering Entrepreneurship
Simone Tarantino
07. Micro–Macro Living
Mimi Hoang with Zachary Weimer
Part 3: Housing Finance and Policy
08. Confronting Affordable Housing Challenges: The Local Role
Mark A. Willis and Benjamin Heller
09. Urban Housing and the Value of the Architect
Martha Kelley
10. Ten Points on a Projective Economy and Architecture
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong
Part 4: Design and Material Innovation
11. Voids and Other Invisible Objects
Marcelo Spina
12. (Re)Configuring Typology
Hina Jamelle
13. Material Speculation: A Science and Craft
Laia Mogas-Soldevila
14. Speculating with Constraints
Nader Tehrani
15. The Architect’s Agency in a Developers’ Market
Patrik Schumacher

About the author

Hina Jamelle teaches Architectural Design at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where she is the Director of Urban Housing and teaches final year Graduate Option Studios.

Summary

Under Pressure gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation.

Product details

• Authors: Hina Jamelle
• Assisted by: Hina Jamelle (Editor), Jamelle Hina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367481711
• ISBN: 978-0-367-48171-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, LAW / Property, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Property law: general, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, City and town planning: architectural aspects, property law