Expanding Architecture

Design as Activism

By: Bryan Bell (Editor), Katie Wakeford

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Paperback | 8 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism - or 'public-interest architecture' - that might function akin to public interest law or medicine by expanding architecture's all-too-often elite client base. With 30 essays by practising architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume is full of work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice, allow individuals and communities to plan and improve their own lives and serve a much larger percentage of the population than it has in the past. This new inclusionary practice must define new services and new processes, and these are illuminated in the generously illustrated texts as well. Examining evolving notions of socially conscious practice, this book serves as an essential guide for designers who are willing to take on the social, economic and environmental challenges we face today.

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Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford's Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism harkens to a period of socially engaged architecture and is also aesthetically pleasing.--Bennett Baumer "The Indypendent"

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Foreword: Public-Interest Architecture: A Needed and Inevitable Change	p. 8
Preface: Expanding Design Toward Greater Relevance	p. 14
Introduction: An Architecture of Change	p. 18
Social, Economic, and Environmental Design	p. 26
The Architectural Bat-Signal: Exploring the Relationship between Justice and Design	p. 28
Toward a Humane Environment: Sustainable Design and Social Justice	p. 34
El Programa de Vivienda Ecologica: Building the Capacity of Yaqui Women to Help Themselves	p. 42
Unbearable Lightness	p. 50
Participatory Design	p. 56
The Creek That Connects It All: Participatory Planning in a Taiwanese Mountain Village	p. 58
Growing Urban Habitats: A Local Housing Crisis Spawns a New Design Center	p. 66
Traditions, Transformation, and Community Design: The Making of Two Ta'u Houses	p. 74
Claiming Public Space: The Case for Proactive, Democratic Design	p. 84
Public-Interest Architecture	p. 92
Mobilizing Mainstream Professionals to Work for the Public Good	p. 94
The Community Design Collaborative: A Volunteer-Based Community Design Center Serving Greater Philadelphia	p. 104
Invisible Zagreb	p. 110
CityworksLosAngeles: Making Differences, Big or Small	p. 116
Asset-Based Approaches	p. 122
Designing with an Asset-Based Approach	p. 124
Communication through Inquiry	p. 132
Designing Infrastructure/Designing Cities	p. 140
Housing for the 98%	p. 146
Mainstreaming Good Design in Affordable Housing: Strategies, Obstacles, and Benefits	p. 148
Architectural Alchemy	p. 158
Competition, Collaboration, and Construction with Habitat for Humanity	p. 166
Architecture and Social Change: The Struggle for Affordable Housing in Oakland's Uptown Project	p. 176
Prefabricating Affordability	p. 184
Migrant Housing	p. 186
Market Modular	p. 194
ecoMOD: Exploring Social and Environmental Justice through Prefabrication	p. 200
Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing	p. 208
Meshing with Market Forces	p. 220
Finding Balance: How to Be an Architect, an Environmentalist, and a Developer	p. 222
Propositions for a New Suburbanism	p. 228
Archepreneurs	p. 236
The Transformative Power of Architectural Education	p. 246
Building Consensus in Design/Build Studios	p. 248
Teaching Cooperation	p. 256
Enhancing Family and Community through Interdisciplinary Design	p. 264
Building Sustainable Communities and Building Citizens	p. 274
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