Theodore H. M. Prudon Modern Housing Redux: the (Un)Loved and the (Un)Learned
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Chancellor's Message
THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE AIA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS ISSUE 103 / 8 April 2013 AIA College of Fellows Executive Committee: Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, Chancellor, [email protected] William J. Stanley, III, FAIA, Vice-Chancellor, [email protected] Albert W. Rubeling, Jr., FAIA, Secretary, [email protected]. John R. Sorrenti, FAIA, Bursar, [email protected] College of Fellows Website: http://www.aia.org/cof Gary Desmond, FAIA, Chair, COF Regional Representatives, [email protected] Robert I. Selby, FAIA, Editor, Fellowscope, [email protected] Terri Stewart, CAE, Executive Director, College of Fellows, [email protected] Fellowscope is now available online. Go to the COF website noted above and click on Fellowscope. The purpose of the College of Fellows is to stimulate a sharing of interests among Fellows, to promote the purposes of the Institute, to advance the profession of architecture, to mentor young architects, and to be of ever- increasing service to society. Chancellor’s Message Dear Colleagues: The last few months have been highly productive relative to the 2013 and 2011 Latrobe Prizes. In mid- February the 2013 Latrobe Prize jury concluded its deliberations by selecting an excellent proposal submitted by Bemal Mendis and Joyce Hsiang, principals of Plan B Architecture and Urbanism and Yale School of Architecture critics. Their research topic, “Urban Sphere: The City of 7 Billion” will build upon previous work performed as the result of an AIA Upjohn Research Grant and a Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability. Mendis and Hsiang will analyze the challenges of global urbanization creating a holistic geospatial model of the world. -
Visions on Social Housing in San Juan: Notes on Workers’ Housing (1930S-1950S)
[Re]visions on Social Housing in San Juan: Notes on Workers’ Housing (1930s-1950s) Published in Spanish as “[Re]visión de la vivienda social en Puerto Rico: Notas sobre la arquitectura para el obrero (1930s-1950s) in Jorge Lizardi and Martin Schwegmann (eds.), Ambivalent Spaces: Memry and Oblivion in Modern Social Architecture (San Juan: Ciu[a]d y Callejón, 2012) 156-184. [Re]visions on Social Housing in San Juan: Notes on Workers’ Housing (1930s-1950s) This form of power that applies itself to immediate everyday life categorizes the individual, marks him by his own individuality, attaches him to his own identity, imposes a law of truth on him that he must recognize and others have to recognize in him. It is a form of power that makes individuals subjects. Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power / 1982 Vanish Point: [Social] Architecture and Dislocation + To Inhabit at/in the Margins The first look at workers’ housing in Puerto Rico is probably, a 1914 Department of Labor report which, after an evaluation of the laborers’ homes, intended to establish a guide for the future construction of appropriate, efficient, and economic houses for the Tropics.9 Within the colonialist discourse that appears throughout the text, determinist considerations insisted on a supposed symbiotic relationship between the workers and the condition of their houses. That way, the authors alleged that inadequate housing tended to produce physically and psychologically weakened individuals, incapable of questioning or bettering their living standards. The report linked housing deficiencies to the materials most available to the workers –that is, native bushes and palms-, and concluded that it would be nearly impossible to build workers’ houses comparable to their counterparts in the United States since on the Island there was no suitable lumber for sound construction. -
Who Is Council Housing For?
‘We thought it was Buckingham Palace’ ‘Homes for Heroes’ Cottage Estates Dover House Estate, Putney, LCC (1919) Cottage Estates Alfred and Ada Salter Wilson Grove Estate, Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council (1924) Tenements White City Estate, LCC (1938) Mixed Development Somerford Grove, Hackney Metropolitan Borough Council (1949) Neighbourhood Units The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, LCC (1951) Post-War Flats Spa Green Estate, Finsbury Metropolitan Borough Council (1949) Berthold Lubetkin Post-War Flats Churchill Gardens Estate, City of Westminster (1951) Architectural Wars Alton East, Roehampton, LCC (1951) Alton West, Roehampton, LCC (1953) Multi-Storey Housing Dawson’s Heights, Southwark Borough Council (1972) Kate Macintosh The Small Estate Chinbrook Estate, Lewisham, LCC (1965) Low-Rise, High Density Lambeth Borough Council Central Hill (1974) Cressingham Gardens (1978) Camden Borough Council Low-Rise, High Density Branch Hill Estate (1978) Alexandra Road Estate (1979) Whittington Estate (1981) Goldsmith Street, Norwich City Council (2018) Passivhaus Mixed Communities ‘The key to successful communities is a good mix of people: tenants, leaseholders and freeholders. The Pepys Estate was a monolithic concentration of public housing and it makes sense to break that up a bit and bring in a different mix of incomes and people with spending power.’ Pat Hayes, LB Lewisham, Director of Regeneration You have castrated communities. You have colonies of low income people, living in houses provided by the local authorities, and you have the higher income groups living in their own colonies. This segregation of the different income groups is a wholly evil thing, from a civilised point of view… We should try to introduce what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer all lived in the same street – the living tapestry of a mixed community. -
Seminar Week People Commonly
AN ADDENDUM TO LONDON’S NATURAL HISTORY by R.S.R. Fitter PEOPLE COMMONLY FOUND IN LONDON DEBTS OF GRATITUDE INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW MONDAY – WEST TUESDAY – NORTH WEDNESDAY – SOUTH THURSDAY – EAST FRIDAY – CENTRAL DIRECTORY SEMINAR WEEK 2 2 – 2 8 O C T O B E R STUDIO TOM EMERSON D-ARCH ETH ZURICH MMXVII 2 PEOPLE COMMONLY FOUND IN LONDON* Cyril Amrein +41 79 585 83 34; Céline Bessire +41 79 742 94 91; Lucio Crignola +41 78 858 54 02; Toja Coray +41 79 574 40 69; Vanessa Danuser +41 78 641 10 65; Nick Drofiak +41 75 417 31 95; Boris Gusic +41 79 287 43 60; David Eckert +41 79 574 40 71; Tom Emerson; Zaccaria Exhenry +41 79 265 02 90; Gabriel Fiette +41 78 862 62 64; Kathrin Füglister +41 79 384 12 73; Pascal Grumbacher +41 79 595 60 95; Jonas Heller +41 78 880 12 55; Joel Hösle +41 77 483 57 67; Jens Knöpfel +41 77 424 62 38; Shohei Kunisawa +41 78 704 43 79; Juliette Martin +41 78 818 88 34; Khalil Mdimagh +41 76 416 52 25; Colin Müller +41 79 688 06 08; Alice Müller +41 79 675 40 76; Philip Shelley +44 77 5178 05 81; Tobia Rapelli +41 79 646 37 18; Daria Ryffel +41 79 881 67 70; Florian von Planta +41 79 793 52 55; Andreas Winzeler +41 79 537 63 30; Eric Wuite +41 77 491 61 57; Tian Zhou +41 78 676 96 15 DEBTS OF GRATITUDE Many thanks to Taran Wilkhu & family, Kim Wilkie, Rebecca Law, Robert Youngs, Angela Kidner, Alex Sainsbury, Juergen Teller Studio, James Green, Adam Willis, Paloma Strelitz, Raven Row, Rachel Harlow, Katharina Worf, Matt Atkins, Crispin Kelly, Ashley Wilde-Evans, Stephanie Macdonald, Markus Lähteenmäki, Matthew Hearn. -
NAAB 2013 Architecture Program Report
Architecture Program Report for 2013 NAAB Visit for Continuing Candidacy Bachelor of Architecture [192 Credit Hours] Year of the Previous Visit: 2011 Current Term of Accreditation: Two Year Candidacy effective July 2010 Submitted to: The National Architectural Accrediting Board September 7, 2012 (revised January 2013) Program Administrator Pedro A. Rosario Torres, Director of Baccaleurate Program Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture 2250 Avenida Las Américas, Suite 601 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00717-9997 E-mail: [email protected] Contact: (787) 841-2000 Ext. 1353 Head of Academic Unit Javier de Jesús Martínez, Dean Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture 2250 Avenida Las Américas, Suite 601 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00717-9997 E-mail: [email protected] Contact: (787) 841-2000 Ext. 1310 Chief academic officer Leandro A. Colón Alicea, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Institution Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Vice-Presidency for Academic Affairs 2250 Avenida Las Américas, Suite 545 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00717-9997 Contact: (787) 841-2000 Ext. 1325 President of the Jorge I. Velez Arrocho, PhD, President Institution Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Presidency 2250 Avenida Las Américas, Suite 564 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00717-9997 Contact: (787) 841-2000 Ext. 1300 2 APR 2012 PCUPR School of Architecture (Rev. January 2013) TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PART ONE (I): Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement ............................ -
Environmental Draft Statement
DRAFT PHASE ONE ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT Non-Technical Summary 2 | HS2 Phase One Draft Environmental Statement | Non-Technical Summary High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, © Queen’s Printer and Controller of Her To order further copies contact: 2nd Floor, Eland House, Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2013, except where Bressenden Place, otherwise stated DfT Publications London SW1E 5DU Tel: 0300 123 1102 Copyright in the typographical arrangement Web: www.dft.gov.uk/orderingpublications Telephone 020 7944 4908 rests with the Crown. Product code : ES/01 General email enquiries [email protected] You may re-use this information (not including Website: www.hs2.org.uk logos or third-party material) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of Printed in Great Britain on paper containing the Open Government Licence. To view this at least 75% recycled fibre. licence, visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/open-government-licence/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or e-mail: [email protected]. Where we have identified any third-party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. ENGINE FOR GROWTH HS2 Phase One Draft Environmental Statement | Non-Technical Summary Foreword The draft Environmental Statement HS2 Ltd is consulting on the draft ES in order to Proposed changes to the January 2012 scheme When the Government submits a hybrid Bill to inform interested parties on the design of the scheme Since the Secretary of State published the proposed Parliament in late 2013, seeking powers to build a and the likely environmental effects with a view to route in January 2012, work has continued to refine new high speed railway between London and the completion of the formal ES. -
MOSSLEY STALYBRIDGE Broadbottom Hollingworth
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Domestic 4: the Modern House and Housing
Domestic 4: Modern Houses and Housing Listing Selection Guide Summary Historic England’s twenty listing selection guides help to define which historic buildings are likely to meet the relevant tests for national designation and be included on the National Heritage List for England. Listing has been in place since 1947 and operates under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. If a building is felt to meet the necessary standards, it is added to the List. This decision is taken by the Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). These selection guides were originally produced by English Heritage in 2011: slightly revised versions are now being published by its successor body, Historic England. The DCMS‘ Principles of Selection for Listing Buildings set out the over-arching criteria of special architectural or historic interest required for listing and the guides provide more detail of relevant considerations for determining such interest for particular building types. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/principles-of- selection-for-listing-buildings. Each guide falls into two halves. The first defines the types of structures included in it, before going on to give a brisk overview of their characteristics and how these developed through time, with notice of the main architects and representative examples of buildings. The second half of the guide sets out the particular tests in terms of its architectural or historic interest a building has to meet if it is to be listed. A select bibliography gives suggestions for further reading. This guide, one of four on different types of Domestic Buildings, covers modern houses and housing. -
Bromley (Lewisham)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND REVIEW OF GREATER LONDON, THE LONDON BOROUGHS AND THE CITY OF LONDON LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY Boundary with : LEWISHAM LB LAMBETH DARTFORD BROM -Y SEVENOAKS TANDRIDGE REPORT NO. 641 LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND REPORT NO 641 LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND CHAIRMAN MR K F J ENNALS CB MEMBERS MR G R PRENTICE MRS H R V SARKANY MR C W SMITH PROFESSOR K YOUNG RT HON MICHAEL HOWARD HP QC SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT REVIEW OF GREATER LONDON, THE LONDON BOROUGHS AND THE CITY OF LONDON LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY AND ITS BOUNDARY WITH THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM COMMISSION'S FINAL REPORT INTRODUCTION 1. This report contains our final proposals for the London Borough of Bromley's boundary with the London Borough of Lewisham. In the main, we have proposed limited changes to remove anomalies, for example, where properties are divided by the boundary. However, we have also sought to unite areas of continuous development where this has appeared to be in the interests of effective and convenient local government. Our report explains how we arrived at our proposals. 2. On 1 April 1987 we announced the start of a review of Greater London, the London boroughs and the City of London, as part of the programme of reviews we are required to undertake by virtue of section 48(1) of the Local Government Act 1972. We wrote to each of the local authorities concerned. 3. Copies of our letter were sent to the adjoining London boroughs; the appropriate county, district and parish councils bordering Greater London; the local authority associations; Members of Parliament with constituency interests; and the headquarters of the main political parties. -
Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb
Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb This book follows Henry Klumb’s life in architecture from Cologne, Germany, to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immi- grant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico’s most pro- lific, locally well-known, and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture, Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most accomplished protégés, and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life, works, and legacy through the lens of a sense of place, defined as the beliefs that people adopt, actions undertaken, and feel- ings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect’s sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work, most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative, culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb’s work: vernacular architecture, the grid and the land- scape, dense urban spaces, and open air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers, academics, and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture, modernism, and architectural history. Cesar A. Cruz is an architectural historian and educator. He has taught architectural history and theory, building structures, and design in Illinois, Indiana, and New Mexico. In August 2016 he received his Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. -
Flip Magazine Neighbourhood Issue
f or LONDON INDEPENDENTPHOTOGRAPHY or LONDON 31 NEIGHBOURHOOD £4 Published by for LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY for LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY Satellite Groups Small informal groups meet approximately once a month to discuss each others’ work, plan exhibitions and just share ideas. As groups are independently organised by members, the structure, content, times, dates, and frequency of meetings are left to the individual groups to decide for themselves. Contact an organiser for more details about a specific group: Central London Hugh Look - [email protected] Crossing Lines Editor’s note 4 John Levett - [email protected] £4 Crouch End Letter from Krakow David Gibson 4 Eva Turrell - [email protected] Dulwich/Sydenham NEIGHBOURHOOD MY WAY 31 Yoke Matze - [email protected] #31 NEIGHBOURHOOD, Summer 2015 Ealing Cover image: Emma Marshall Robin Segulem - [email protected] Bello Market – My Hood Benjamin Szabo 6 Back image: Tom Gifford Greenwich John Levett - [email protected] 11 Stoke Newington Portraits Emma Marshall 8 London Independent Photography is a community organisation Kingston upon Thames of photographers from different backgrounds and levels of Matthew Green - [email protected] expertise who wish to develop their individual approach to Putney Unfinished Houses Raphael Schutz-Weissmann 10 photography. The group was founded in 1987 as an informal Andrew Wilson - [email protected] gathering of like-minded photographers, and has since grown Queens Park to over 600 members. Not-for-profit and run by member Simon Butcher - [email protected] FEATURES volunteers, LIP comes together to offer a programme of Ruislip Metroland workshops and talks, and to produce an annual group exhibition. -
BRUTAL LONDON Robin Hood Gardens CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN CONCRETE CAPITAL Space House ZUPAGRAFIKA, with CONTRIBUTIONS by JOHN GRINDROD and PETER CHADWICK
Appealing to fans of architecture, this ingeniously designed book lets you build replicas of some of London’s iconic post-war concrete structures while learning about their place in the city’s architectural history. Featured buildings: Alexandra Road Estate Alton Estate Aylesbury Estate Balfron Tower Barbican Estate Ledbury Estate National Theatre BRUTAL LONDON Robin Hood Gardens CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN CONCRETE CAPITAL Space House ZUPAGRAFIKA, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN GRINDROD AND PETER CHADWICK In this fun and intellectually stimulating book, readers can recreate a number of London’s most renowned Brutalist buildings. Opening with an informative history of the origins and philosophy of Brutalist architecture, the book then focuses on 9 buildings, including the Barbican Estate, Robin Hood Gardens, Balfron Tower and the National Theatre. The first part of the book looks at the significance of each of these buildings, with a short chapter on each, complete with texts and images. The second part of the book consists of a series of 9 pre-cut and folded buildings, printed on heavy card stock, that readers can detach and construct with easy-to- follow instructions. At once fun and informative, this unique book offers a challenging and entertaining approach to architecture. ZUPAGRAFIKA is a creative design studio based in Poland, founded by David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka. The studio originates, illustrates, designs, and publishes their own award-winning, architecture-related objects. JOHN GRINDROD is an author and journalist. He wrote the book Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain and has contributed to The Guardian, the Financial Times, C20 magazine and The Modernist.