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Type and Domesticity in the Dwellings of Henry Roberts
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Henry Roberts, Model buildings plans.
From Henry Roberts, The Dwellings of the Laboring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction, Revised and Augmented Edition (London: Society for Improving the Condition of the Laboring Classes, []), 88–
Housing maketh men—or so thought housing reformers in mid-nineteenth century London. Faced with widespread epidemics and uncontrolled overcrowding, they believed that rehousing the working class appropriately could be the key to improving both their physical and moral health.&#; The model dwelling emerged in this context. Since housing societies and associations assumed that the overcrowded living arrangements of houses led to the spread of disease and poor moral behavior, they began designing and constructing working-class dwellings that would serve as examples for others to emulate.&#; The Society for Improving the Condition of the Laboring Classes (SICLC) was one such organization. Royally patronized by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the housing society was among the most influential of t
ARQ DOCS: Pier Vittorio Aureli
- Written by Emilio De la Cerda
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Published by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as part of their ARQ DOCS series, "Pier Vittorio Aureli" features two in depth interviews with Aureli, the high-profile Italian theorist and co-founder of design and research studio DOGMA. The book's introduction, written by Emilio De la Cerda is excerpted below.
The work of Pier Vittorio Aureli constitutes a rigorous effort of thought regarding architectural discipline and the political dimension enclosed by the specificity of form. It is an approach focused on the power of the project, a speculative but delimited tool, which allows overcoming the paralysis of diagnosis and the abuse of diagrams, in order to establish a decisive commitment with the concrete reality of the city.
This line of thought, which is introduced here through two interviews conducted in and by Felipe De Ferrari and Diego Grass —architects and professors in our school—recognizes the profound historical and collective tradition of architecture, showing itself distant from those conceptions t
The room is perhaps the most obvious form of architecture, and yet it is the least investigated. It seems that the room has always been there, and that as dwellers, and then as architects, we have had no choice but to live in and design rooms. If the purpose of architecture is to make space then the room is the most direct architectural form that can result from such a claim. While architect Louis Kahn considered the room as the essential origin of architecture, writer Virginia Woolf argued that to have ‘a room of one’s own’ was for a woman of her time a challenge to the patriarchal logic of domestic space. Far from being a timeless form, the room is a product of specific historical circumstances that are related to one of the most controversial and problematic issues of human history: the domestication of society. The architecture of the room expresses subtly and yet directly the way in which households, families, and individuals have been individuated as subjects with distinct gender and class connotations. Evolving from the closet, boudoir, bedchamber, and sleeping cubicle the private room eventually became the bedroom, a place where each dweller is designated a specific posi
Talking Practice
Talking Practice
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, educator, and co-founder of Dogma, an architecture and research-based practice in Brussels. Pier Vittorio reveals early beginnings of Dogma, which started as an academic comradery and became a professional cooperation. He expands on the reception and interpretation of his work and writing, including the contemporary challenges of housing.
As an educator, Pier Vittorio discusses the influence of his teaching and its role on his writing. The conversation sheds light on the imbrication of politics, housing, and social concerns. Pier Vittorio and Grace also discuss academia and why construction is at the “core” of the architectural discipline.
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