Nnamdi Elleh

Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book not only shows how architects can learn from traditional or vernacular dwellings in order to create habitations for the people of low-income groups in public housing scenarios, but also demonstrates how the architecture of the economically underprivileged classes goes beyond culturally-inspired tectonic interpretations of vernacular traditions by architects for high profile clients. It explores how the resourceful dwellings of the underprivileged inhabitants of the great cities in developing parts of the world pioneered certain concepts of modernism and contemporary design practices such as sustainable and de-constructivist design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317071044
• Artikelnr.: 44873833

Autorenporträt

Nnamdi Elleh is Associate Professor of architecture history and theory, and the Director of the Master of Science in Architecture Program at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; I: Context(s) and Theoretical Underpinnings; 1: Reading the
Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes; 2: The Global Context(s):
Architecture and Urban Revolution(s) to Transform the Society and the
Individual, 1900-2014; 3: Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes and
Cubism; II: Sustainable Shared Spaces and Experiences of Modernity; 4:
House of Blues: The Shotgun and Scarcity Culture in the Mississippi Delta;
5: Cultural facilities in the Opaque Spaces of Brazilian Cities as
Instruments of Resistance; 6: Grass Roots Modernism: Architecture and
Organization in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens, 1921-1925; 7: A
Tiny Whole World: Sustainable Design Lessons from the Architecture of
Underprivileged Classes; 8: The Politics of Nation in the Urban Form of
Informal Settlements in Quezon City, Philippines; III: Politics and Urban
Regulations: Demolished and Refurbished Neighborhoods; 9: Spatial
Misreading: South Africa's Urban Future Seen from Within a Township Shack;
10: Preparations for the Sports Mega-Events in Brazil and the Popular
Protests of 2013; 11: On Changes in the Dwelling Conditions of the Romanian
Roma under Communism; 12: The Political Economy of Low and Moderate Income
Urban Residential Development: A Case Study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria; 13:
Invisible Visibility: The Abuja Housing Deficit as a Political Mirage; III:
Conclusion