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Housing and the City HOUSING AND THE CITY BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Thursday 19 – Saturday 21, November 2020 Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Image: IBeB, Heide & von Beckerath, Photography: Andrew Alberts Annual International Conference of 17ththe Architectural Humanities Research Association Image: Gleis 21 by einszueins architektur 01 HOUSING Conference AND THE CITY Convenors n the early twentieth century, a desire to that link the subject to the spatiality of the Imaster the workings of the city linked it city. Francoise Choay posits Ildefonso Cerdá’s explicitly to the provision of housing. The Teoriá general de la urbanización of 1867 as processes of ‘the urban’ became an ‘ism’, the the first theory of urbanism, as a ‘science’ that Dr Katharina Borsi Dr Didem Ekici Professor Jonathan Hale multiplication of houses became housing. In the for the first time conceptualised the spaces twenty-first century, cities are witnessing new of the city and its population in conjunction. ways of working, changing social demographics, Since the rise of ‘the urban’ as a field of increased geographical mobility and mass knowledge linking spaces and the population, migrations, as well as the pervasive threat our very conceptions of the self, of intimacy of the climate crisis. New modes of urban and care, have come to be engendered by and domesticity have begun to emerge, among to propel our understanding of urban spaces them ‘co-living’ for young urban professionals, and processes. How to house and group the ‘co-housing’ of various kinds, ‘live-work’ units population, how to ensure its welfare and Senior Tutor and Associate Professor, and other versions of domesticated working. happiness, and how to optimise the potentials Assistant Professor, Professor of Architectural Theory, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sometimes, these trends are born of economic of individuals, families and other segments of University of Nottingham University of Nottingham University of Nottingham necessity; sometimes, they are driven by the urban population have been central urban aspirations of inclusion, solidarity and sharing. questions addressed through the potential of In either case, they are often promoted as architecture throughout the twentieth century. desirable styles of life, experiments in housing How to do this in an increasingly explicitly and working that are linked to the promise of a global context, facing global threats, becomes new kind of collectivity, a new kind of city. The the additional question of the twenty-first. concern of this conference is to investigate the Ye Xu Nick Haynes Sarah Taylor link between housing and urbanism, if not to disentangle it, at least to interrogate it. We ask Housing and the City what these new forms of living and working might mean for the city and, in turn, what After the Pandemic current transformations of the urban might s the world continues to fight the rapid mean for the way we conceive of the home. Aspread of Covid19, we might not yet be in a position to substantively rethink this question, The primary question asked by the conference let alone to predict a new urban reality of is this: what does it mean to be at home in segregation and containment. However, we invite PhD student in Architecture, Studio Tutor and PhD Candidate, Research Administrator, the city in the twenty-first century? Our aim you to reflect and speculate on how the effects Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, is to investigate the historical and theoretical of the pandemic will shape our lives, how it University of Nottingham University of Nottingham University of Nottingham genealogy of this question, premised on an challenges our conception of the home and the understanding that the urban and the domestic, city, and how it affects the complex relationships the public and the private, the individual and between the individual and the collective, the the collective, the political and the personal, public and the private. We ask how it might are not opposing concepts but constructions affect the dynamism of the urban. In consultation with Diana Periton Independent Scholar 02 03 Session Keynote Co-ordinators Speakers Anna Minton Lawrence Barth Abigail McHardy Poppy Chinn Conor Vale Rachel Marshall Bethan Crouch 'Big Capital: Who is the City for?' 'Dwelling and Critique' Anna Minton is a writer, journalist and Lawrence Barth is a Programme Co- Reader in Architecture at the University Director of Housing and Urbanism of East London. Her publications include and an urbanist. He has consulted 'Ground Control: Fear and Happiness internationally on urban strategy Tilisha Franklin Lucy Wren Joe Wareham Lottie Smith Ventsislav Videlov in the 21st Century’ (Penguin, 2009 and for cities, architects and landscape 2013) and 'Big Capital: Who is London architects, and has led planning and For?' (Penguin, 2017). design projects for contemporary knowledge environments. Katharina Bayer Chris Matthews Tim Heide Technical Team Eric Atkinson Owen Davies Matthew Urry Christopher Bennett Thomas Wickens 'Together! Potentials of Cooperative 'A History of Council Housing in 'Resilient Structures, Collective Forms' Housing and Self Organisation' Nottingham' Katharina Bayer is the co-founder of Chris Matthews is a graphic designer Tim Heide is a co-founder of the einszueins architektur in Vienna, an and historian. His most recent books architecture firm Heide & von Beckerath, award-winning practice focussing on include ‘Homes & Places: A History of a practice at the forefront of Berlin’s new forms of urban housing. Nottingham’s Council Housing’ and innovative housing experimentation ‘Cities of the North’, both published in 2016. Book of Abstracts Designers Ye Xu Rachel Marshall 04 05 Online Exhibition "Black and White Portraits" & "Bird's Eye View" "Portraits of Domesticity" Emily Andersen Anna Shapiro 06 07 SESSIONS FRIDAY 20.11.20 P 18-22 20.11.20 P 23-25 20.11.20 P 29-32 20.11.20 P 33-36 20.11.20 Estate Logics: Modernisms Modernity, Ideology Types, Utopias R1Thematic transfers in housing R2 O1 and Housing O2 and Cities estate design, 1900–1938 Tilo Amhoff, University of Brighton Irina Davidovici, ETH Zürich Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv University Didem Ekici, University of Nottingham From the cell to the territory. The ‘Disurbanist’ project of Language Logics: Housing in translation Gender aspects of apartment planning in Tel Aviv, 1930s Children of Krupp: The factory as a home Irina Davidovici, ETH Zürich Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv University Maur Dessauvage, Columbia University New York the OSA group Martino Tattara, KU Leuven The logic of Type: A Genealogy of the Berlin Siedlungen A levantine home At The “Bauhaus City” - The work of The Concept of Type in Hellerau Garden City, 1908-1914 Katharina Borsi, University of Nottingham Mizrahi Architects, and the not so “White” city of Tel- Didem Ekici, University of Nottingham Das neue Berlin: Martin Wagner and The Department for Aviv, 1930-1948 City Planning of the City of Berlin (1926-1932) The logic of the norm: LCC urban housing during the Tzafrir Fainholtz, Technion - Israel Institute of Red Vienna, black Vienna: Housing in social democratic Tilo Amhoff, University of Brighton interwar period Technology (1919-1934) and Austro-fascist (1934-1938) Vienna Christopher Metz, ETH Zürich Inge Podbrecky, Federal Heritage Authority, Austria Hypercorbusian Mendelsohn. A lost project for the Four modern kitchens: The impact of Adalberto Libera’s completion of the early thirties in Berlin Paper logics: Red Vienna estates in architectural studies on housing during the 1940s Nottingham estates in 1850 Michele Stavagna, Independent Scholar/Netzwerk publications David Escudero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Lottie Smith, University of Nottingham Architekturwissenschaft, Berlin Harald Robert Stuehlinger, FHNW Nordwestschweiz How can space be ‘ideological?’ Angelika Schnell, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna P 26-28 20.11.20 P 37-40 20.11.20 Collective Reform, Health R3 Inhabitations O3 and Pandemic Hugh Campbell, University College Dublin Stephen Walker, The University of Manchester The Ahmedabad pols and the trans individual Urban sanitizing and household pollution in small northern Dorian Wiszniewski, University of Edinburgh towns in the Russian empire, 1870 - 1914 Anna Agafonova, Higher School of Economics, St. Hidden commons: Hutong inversions Petersburg Doreen Bernath, AA Project Cities Programme , Leeds School of Architecture Health, Tuberculosis and the city: Strategies to approach the dwelling hygiene of Berlin (1885-1915) The way we dance: The (re)production of rooftop space Eva Eylers, Independent Scholar in contemporary hong kong urban cinema Zhuozhang Li, University of Liverpool Iberian housing and city. A relationship through documentary cinema Alba Zarza Arribas, University of Valladolid (Spain) - Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (Portugal) Nostalgia for the Past: Casa Bloc as a Paradigm for Post- Pandemic Housing and Urban Development Carolina B. García-Estévez, Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC 08 09 P 41-46 20.11.20 P 55-58 20.11.20 P 59-62 20.11.20 Affective Provision in Collective Forms Scale and Typology Flexibility and Y1 P1 P2 Adaptation Doreen Bernath, Architectural Association, Projective Cities Programme (AAPC), Leeds School of Architecture Nick Haynes, University of Nottingham Paolo Beccarelli, University of Nottingham From asset to debt and dispossession: Housing
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