Activism at Home: Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics and resistance

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Author: Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye (eds.)This title offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings – homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and c ultural 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 and Kiyoshi Seike.ISBN 9783868596335. JOVIS. pb. 384 pages. 150 ills. 17 x 24 cm.available Show more