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Bed for One: A Queer Interpretation of the Rooming House
Understanding the historical and overlapping complexities related to the queer subject, the single bed, and the emergence of the rooming house, helps frame larger theoretical questions about the neglected, yet contradicting by nature, category of queer dom ...
2023Villas through Press. The Endorsement of the Escape by Hoepli and Görlich in Postwar Italy
In the collective imagination, the villa is a manifesto of ‘the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory for stylistic experimentation, as an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cu ...
2023Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva
Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Maxime Carl Felder
In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023‘Monsieur, I have a wife and child, a house and a garden, et alors?’
Marshall Plan, officially operated from 1948 to 1952 for reconstruction and development in Europe and non-European countries such as Turkey and Switzerland, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Referred by its bureaucrats as “ ...
2023The Domestic Turn: Politics of Education from New College to The Palazzo Della Sapienza
Student accommodation became a problem only a century after the foundation of the first universities in Europe in the 12th century. At the very beginning students had to provide their own lodgings autonomously. In many university cities the situation prove ...
2023Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework
Paola Viganò, Stéphane Joost, Dusan Licina, Idris Guessous, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Mathias Lerch, Catarina Wall Gago, Derek Pierre Christie
As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...
2023Teaching Circular Architecture On-site
Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel
The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...
2023Archipel de Résistance. Projet de rénovation et transformation de péniches de type Freycinet et de barges à Paris
Le regard que nous avons porté sur la ville et ses moyens de production dans l’énoncé théorique, Habiter, la nouvelle résistance, nous a montré qu’il n’existe pas de ville type ou de solution urbaine normalisée. Ces processus ont pour but de permettre le c ...
2023Le Collage comme outil exploratoire collectif dans la conception d’espaces publics
Sonia Monique Curnier, Véronique Mauron Layaz
L’imagerie produite par les conceptrices et concepteurs d’espaces publics est dominée aujourd’hui par des représentations photoréalistes. Toutefois, certaines agences choisissent de manière délibérée d’autres types d’images : des collages. Notre étude se f ...
2023Questioning obsolescence: When does a dwelling reach the end of its life?
Buildings are demolished when they are considered obsolete, in other words, when they have reached the end of their lifespan. Demolition leads to waste; in Europe, construction and demolition waste accounts for approximately 25-30% of the total waste gener ...
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