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- ISBN 9780993370601
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Libri Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Housing the Future –
Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of
housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading
practising architects with academics from seven countries and teams of
international students. World leaders in the field of residential design such
as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman present built projects whose design
criteria and aims they lay out in text. Academics from the UK, the USA, Spain,
Germany and elsewhere follow these project descriptions with extended essays
from a more theoretical perspective but remain focused on the realities of
practice. Finally, ideas on current housing problems from the next generation
of designers are brought together in student projects from Europe and North
America. With an introduction by Dr Graham Cairns, this book highlights the
practice of residential design internationally at a time when affordable
housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, planners and policy
makers alike.
Dr Graham Cairns has taught at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, South Africa and Gambia. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong. The author and editor of five books, he has delivered keynote talks internationally and has published multiple articles on architecture, film and advertising in scholarly journals. Previously, he also ran a research-based performing arts company, Hybrid Artworks, with a specialism in video installation and performance. Currently, he is based at Columbia University, New York and is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is principal editor of the scholarly journal Architecture_MPS and director of the research group AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society). Graham Potts has a PhD from York University, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Rachel Isaac-Menard has a Masters in Art History. She is also Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian / Emerging Technologies Coordinator at Adelphi University, New York. She is the author of refereed articles on art and architectural history.
