Get Ready for Housing and the People
Ahead of Housing and the People, Open House Worldwide’s second virtual festival, we have brought together some inspiring housing films, articles, books and exhibitions to get you prepared for April 9th.
Browse the list below and let us know your own favourites on our Twitter or Instagram.
This is the first of a two-part series of recommended resources. Check out part two here.
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Public Housing Works
Lund Humphries, 2021
A new book by Paul Karakusevic, Mike Althorpe and Abigail Batchelor of London housing specialists, Karakusevic Carson Architects. The book features detailed and richly illustrated studies of their work as well as interviews with planners and young architects.
“The housing that gives hope to refugees”
wellcome collection, 2021
This article by Open House Worldwide curator George Kafka features two housing projects supporting vulnerable displaced people in Athens, with photography from Mamadou, a resident of one of the projects.
A House Is Not Just a House
Columbia University Press, 2018
A House is Not Just a House collects projects and texts by Mexican architect and educator Tatiana Bilbao, whose work ranges from large social housing projects to individual houses.
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century City
The Vienna Model 2: Housing for the City of the 21st Century
Jovis, 2016, 2019
Building on urbanistic and social aspects, Vienna has constructed new housing projects and dynamic models of contemporary living.
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Why I turned Chicago’s abandoned homes into art
TEDWomen, 2018
In this TED talk, artist Amanda Williams discusses Color(ed) Theory, her work exploring race, housing and urban planning in her native Chicago.
The imaginaries of transformation
Karine Dana, 2018
Pritzker Prize winning French architects Lacaton & Vassal have become renowned worldwide for their socially and ecologically sensitive approach to social housing. Learn more in this film by Karine Dana.
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Architecture of Appropriation
Het Nieuwe Instituut
An exhibition and book project developed at Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut that proposes squatting as a form of architectural practice. Discover the research and download the free publication.
The Work of Marina Tabassum
Sir John Soane’s Museum
In this lecture and article, Marina Tabassum lays out her extraordinary “architecture of relevance” in her home of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
For more on housing around the world, don’t forget to register for Housing and the People, a free festival by Open House Worldwide on April 9th 2022.
