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Interwar period

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‘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 “ ...

2023

Une nuisance imaginaire ? Comment les tensions autour de la fumée des locomotives sont devenues « anecdotiques »

Arthur Grégoire Jacques Emile

Cet article porte sur la disqualification durable d’alertes médicales et de craintes environnementales concernant la fumée des locomotives à vapeur, à travers l’étude de deux anecdotes renvoyant à des épisodes historiques des années 1820-1830 : l’expressio ...

2022

From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...

2022

How the Labour Self-Build: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey

Sila Karatas

This presentation aims to discuss the transnational activity and discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the assisted self-help model by ...

2021

From technocrats to laymen: Community planning and self-help housing for workers in Marshall Plan countries

Sila Karatas

With the introduction of the Marshall Plan to Europe after the Second World War, architectural practice for workers’ housing faced a paradigmatic shift by means of procedural approaches and spatial strategies as well as roles of planner, architect and comm ...

2020

Organique - L'Architecture du logement des écrits aux oeuvres

Bruno Marchand, Christophe Joud

Cet ouvrage part d'un constat surprenant : l'émergence, à partir des années 2000, d'une série de projets de logements collectifs en Suisse utilisant des géométries irrégulières, tant dans la configuration intérieure des espaces domestiques que dans la form ...

PPUR2020

L'intelligence des formes: Le projet de logements collectifs à Vienne et Francfort

Alessandro Porotto

Les expériences de politique urbaine menées à Vienne et à Francfort dans l’entre-deux-guerres – Das rote Wien et Das neue Frankfurt  – constituent aujourd’hui encore des références incontournables dans l’histoire du logement collectif en Europe. Les modèle ...

MētisPresses2019

Moving on: Is Existenzminimum Still Relevant?

Bruno Marchand

In the inter-war period, progressive architects confronted the building of mass housing with an analogy with rational and functional workplaces. At the 2nd CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), held in Frankfurt in 1929, this was tested aga ...

2019

L'oeuvre de Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994), architecte à la recherche de l'identité élusive de l'architecture philippine du second après-guerre

Jean-Claude Girard

Filipino architect Leandro Valencia Locsin (Silay1928 - Makati 1994) produced an architectural work that involved 250 projects, of which at least more than half were completed and mostly in his country of origin. A graduate in architecture of San Tomas de ...

EPFL2018

Social Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt: two complementary architectural models

Alessandro Porotto

The paper discusses urban policies for social housing in Vienna and Frankfurt in the inter World War years of the twentieth century. It provides not only historical knowledge, but also examines social housing ensembles within the contemporary city from an ...

2016

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