Living Complex (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2015-10-19
Förlag
Hirmer Verlag
Illustratör/Fotograf
ca 40 Abbildungen in Farbe
Illustrationer
Illustrated in black and white throughout
Dimensioner
203 x 127 x 25 mm
Vikt
340 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9783777424101

Living Complex

From Zombie City to the New Communal

av Niklas Maak
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-10-19
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Our cities are atrophying: What was once an open system inhabitable by all and that was about freedom and self-determination is becoming a zone in which architecture focuses only on comfort and security: a walk-in investment portfolio of luxury properties, offices and token patches of green. The masses, meanwhile, continue to live in the endless housing developments of the suburbs. Accommodation is characterised by a mania for barricades and comfort. The construction industry is booming and builds the same houses over and over again. But do those buildings have anything to do with the way in which most people want to live today, considering dramatic demographic, technological and social change? Where does the dream of the detached house come from? Which ideal form of living are we taught by childrens books, lifestyle magazines and DIY shops? Who benefits from us living the way we live? Niklas Maak shows how the interests of the construction industry, overextended policies mired in regulations and the habits of planners prevent us from rethinking construction, living arrangements and the city. This humorous, controversial and very well researched book is a precise economic analysis of the architectural world, a brilliant cultural history of living arrangements and a political manifesto for a new kind of architecture.
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"This informative little book addresses the myriad elements that make up the human habitat today. Through vignettes drawn from architecture and cities worldwide, the author begins by citing the zombie problems within the present urban landscapes, largely predicated on the profits that can be made. . . . Living Complex is peppered with superb black-and-white photographs, making for a delightful read. It makes an impactful statement about how cities do not work, how they became this way, and what can be done to reclaim what has been lost. . . . Highly recommended." -- "Choice" (4/25/2016 12:00:00 AM)

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Niklas Maak is a writer and arts editor at the FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung, and a John T. Dunlop Lecturer of Housing and Urbanization at Harvard. He is the author of Le Corbusier: The Architect on the Beach, also published by Hirmer Publishers.

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