Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, I expended several hundred words in a possibly-unnecessary exercise – intellectually demolishing the feasibility of architectural speculations, presented in the Boston Globe, that I believe even their proponents would concede are whimsical fantasies, never intended to exist beyond CAD/CAM screens and jpegs.
They represent an [...]
By: David A. Smith
“So this unemployed architect walks into a bar and says, ‘our erections can last for years’.”
Okay, maybe not precisely that cheesily, but something similarly whimsical had to have been in the minds of Boston Globe editors when they sent out an offer to under-employed architects, What would you do to [...]
[Continued from last Thursday’s Part 1 .]
In Part 1 of our tour of 15 housing projects from hell, via the passionate posters at the funky Web site Oobject, we indicted the architects, led by Le Corbusier, for throwing up concrete stack after stack of monoliths.
Can you too be an urban planner?
Just try these plans and specs
Yet [...]
If architecture cannot make us into better human beings and societies, can it make us into worse ones? Can large monolithic high-rise blocks dehumanize us? As presented on the funky Web site Oobject, herewith are 15 housing projects from hell, through which – aside from being appalled that architects, builders and government inflicted these upon [...]
Because buildings are immobile, massive, and sturdily built, we have the natural but bad habit of thinking them immutable and immortal – mute elephants, as it were. Taking them for granted, we can do damage with incremental changes that we make thoughtlessly, presuming such changes can make no difference.
Who then speaks for buildings? Every now [...]
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