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45:housing :: fall 2024
It is increasingly evident that health and lifespan are dependent on the quality of housing one is born into – a factor that one does not choose at birth, but which determines one’s future. The present housing crisis across the world, whether in refugee populations or G7 cities, is a crisis that will play out over the next 70 years. Clearly it is not only the materiality of housing, although that defines a complex of class and wealth signifiers from top to bottom. It is also access to housing of any sort that is at issue. Something is preventing access: and there is a panoply of reasons: climate, race, family structure, gender, wealth, age, employment, accrued wealth, lack of accrued wealth, wages, investments, citizenship, language, religion, tradition — every social condition on the planet has aligned to determine access to housing. At what scale should we, as architects, designers, urbanists, builders and thinkers, be thinking? Which models offer a way forward? Should we look back, laterally, or just keep ploughing on with what we have? Social safety nets are underpinned by housing; should this relationship be changed? Should we be looking at governments, institutions, corporations or the individual?
Francis Towne, Castel Madama, above the River Aniene, near Tivoli . 1781
46:travel ::: spring 2025
Why do we travel? Is it to see new things? to rack up a gazillion photographs? to touch something elemental about unfamiliarity? to leave the quotidian behind for a while? What, historically, did travel bring to architecture? Is there anything essentially imperialistic about travel? What do studios abroad, obligatory offerings for any self-respecting architecture school, bring to the study of architecture? Does travel always imply distance? Is emigration travel or displacement? What does travel displace? Peter Cook once titled a lecture: I travel to find what I already know . Is this the promise, or the danger, of travel?
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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Villa Lante, Italy , 1982
J S Lowry, Hillside in Wales, Abertillery , 1962.
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