Sixteen Houses

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		Sixteen Houses
		Sixteen Houses

基本信息·出版社：Monacelli
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2004年04月
·ISBN：1580931146
·International Standard Book Number：1580931146
·条形码：9781580931144
·EAN：9781580931144
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 In April 1998, sixteen architects?Studio Works in Los Angeles, Lindy Roy in New York, Carlos Jimenez in Houston, and Stanley Saitowitz in San Francisco, among others?were invited to assemble teams to design a series of single-family houses for the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation in Houston, Texas. The goal of the Fifth Ward CRC is to provide high-quality affordable housing, and the architects selected responded with designs innovative in both aesthetic and financial issues. "16 Houses" documents the house proposals in striking renderings and photographs, and also addresses the question of affordable housing locally and nationally. Thus the volume provides a new model of collaborative design between institutions that can respond with innovation and vigor to federal initiatives in housing policy.
作者简介 Michael Bell is an architect practicing in New York and an associate professor of architecture at Columbia University. He has also taught and lectured at Rice University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is the author of a monograph on Stanley Saitowitz and the coeditor of Slow Space, and his work is collected in the monograph Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us; Essays and Projects on the City.



专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

The federal government?s 1990s effort to decentralize public housing and encourage ownership through down-payment vouchers for low-income home buyers prompted this artful, innovative answer to the post-war, cookie-cutter suburbs that encircle American cities. Initiated by architect and professor Bell, the project engaged 16 architectural firms (including Studio Works from Los Angeles, Lindy Roy from New York and Carlos Jimenez Studio from Houston) and the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation, to create low-cost housing deigned for Houston?s Fifth Ward, a five-square-mile, predominantly African American neighborhood. The result is 16 inventive plans?pictured here with explanations by the architects and, in some cases, accompanying poems or stories?that "literally or symbolically expand the boundaries of the single family house, transcending the limitations of its relative insignificance in the urban landscape." The architects considered market constraints, local economy, race and income in their proposals, and many emphasize fluid, efficient and variable spaces, such as Keith Krumwiede?s "Domestic Topographic Package," a compact, three-story home that can be customized to fit the owner?s needs. Several designs capitalize on locally manufactured materials and alternative construction methods to cut costs; Stanley Saitowitz?s corrugated aluminum and glass house with a flat, tarred roof is original, but may prove a challenge to cool in Houston?s intense summers. Bell sometimes uses architectural jargon (e.g., "volumetric and tectonic responses"), but his study offers a lucid and promising vision for imagining future low-income housing. 100 color illustrations, 50 b&w.
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