1st Edition
Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism
264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
243 Pages
by
Routledge
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Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to let... Read more
Cedric Price's Non-Plan diary; Function follows form; The Heart of the city: C.I.A.M. 8; Recovery & re-appropriation in Lefebvre & Constant; Pervasion of the picturesque: English architectural aesthetics & legislation; The Indeterminate building; Buckminster Fuller & the politics of shelter; Off the map; Open ends: The social visions of 1960s non-planning; Thinking the Unthinkable; New Right/New Left: An alternative experiment in freedom; Anarchy & architecture: A personal record; The death of the planner? Paris circa 1968; After Non-Plan: retrenchment & reassertion; Can man plan? Can woman plan better?; Living lightly on the earth; Empowering the self-builder; Towards an unoriginal architecture; Inflatable man; Index.
Biography
JONATHAN HUGHES, SIMON SADLpson
"...a lively and provocative read...'Non-Plan' is not just a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of post-war planning; the way that it places architectural and planning ideas within a wider political discourse makes it a persuasive model for writing the architectural history of the late twentieth century."
Architect's Journal
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