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Dwelling on the Future by Pierre d' Avoine
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781787350540
Published:
01 Oct 2020
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
370 pages
Dimensions:
229x229x30mm
Weight:
0.936kgs
Author:
Dwelling on the
Future focuses on the
design of dwellings and their varied environments, and questions how an
architect responds to the challenge of providing humane places in which to
live for a growing, multifarious population in an increasingly divided world. Is it
possible to imagine and implement a world in which a level of comfort and
stability is available for even the poorest members of societies?
Dwelling on the Future focuses on the design of dwellings and their varied environments, and questions how an architect responds to the challenge of providing humane places in which to live for a growing, multifarious population in an increasingly divided world.
The issue is never just housing. People - individuals, groups and societies - can and do have different goals and aspirations. Is it possible to imagine and implement a world in which a level of comfort and stability is available for even the poorest members of societies?
Pierre d'Avoine covers a wide range of examples, including proposals for luxury housing and designs for low-cost dwellings, which all address the needs and desires of their potential inhabitants. He explores an inclusive approach to the design of settlements - and not just in cities - that recognises difference, an approach that demands a fresh political vision to resolve humanity's increasing inequality, for the benefit of all. D'Avoine asks if we can respond with optimism to the Kabakovs' mordantly titled installation 'Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future (2001)'. While this was perhaps a statement of fact in Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it is implicit, and ever more so, in the West today.
Praise for Dwelling on the Future
'Beautifully judged line drawings, physical models and critical texts ...supplemented here by interviews that he has conducted with the full range of project partners. These illuminate the rich, diverse and often idiosyncratic contexts within which housing in the UK is produced and prove that good housing is not merely a socio-technical process. The resulting proposals suggest the triumph of possibility over regulatory limitation ...As the Welsh Government's laudable Innovative Housing Programme progresses, Dwelling on the Future illustrates the value of different ways of thinking and acting.'
Touchstone: The journal for architecture in Wales
'The merits of the images [in paperback] out perform the on-screen version.'
Construction Expert, Russia
'In the modern world, with its growing speed and increasingly widespread clip-based thinking, it is rare to find an architect's book about architecture in which text prevails over images. … Dwelling on the Future is also unusual in that it is based not on a text by the architect about his projects, but on a series of interviews with those who were involved in them. …The book should be of interest to anyone who is curious about the origins of architectural ideas, projects and the process of their implementation.'
Gleb A. Sobolev
'a subtle but vital critique of the cultural landscape of England'
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
About the Author: Pierre d'Avoine is an architect and teacher based in London. Pierre was born in Bombay, India in 1951. He set up Pierre d'Avoine Architects in 1979 and studioDA with Pereen d'Avoine and Nilesh Shah in 2017. Pierre and Pereen teach MArch Unit 14 at the Cass School of Architecture. Pierre has also taught at Bath School of Architecture and at the AA. Pierre has been Visiting Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Pierre practices, teaches and exhibits internationally. He published Housey Housey: A Pattern Book of Ideal Homes with Clare Melhuish in 2005.
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