1st Edition

Under Pressure Essays on Urban Housing

Edited By Hina Jamelle Copyright 2022
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of daily life. Housing’s complexity offers unique and exciting opportunities to architects. Its entwinement with private... Read more

Introduction

00. Urban Housing Under Pressure
Hina Jamelle

Part 1: Learning from History

01. Future Histories
Kutan Ayata

02. Living Off the Land
Scott Erdy

03. The Value of a Home: A Critical Approach to Local Practice
Brian Phillips

04. Tectonics and Urban Identity
Neil Denari

Part 2: Changing Domesticities

05. New Domesticities, New Realities
Clifford Pearson

06. Empowering Entrepreneurship
Simone Tarantino

07. Micro–Macro Living
Mimi Hoang with Zachary Weimer

Part 3: Housing Finance and Policy

08. Confronting Affordable Housing Challenges: The Local Role
Mark A. Willis and Benjamin Heller

09. Urban Housing and the Value of the Architect
Martha Kelley

10. Ten Points on a Projective Economy and Architecture
Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong

Part 4: Design and Material Innovation

11. Voids and Other Invisible Objects
Marcelo Spina

12. (Re)Configuring Typology
Hina Jamelle

13. Material Speculation: A Science and Craft
Laia Mogas-Soldevila

14. Speculating with Constraints
Nader Tehrani

15. The Architect’s Agency in a Developers’ Market
Patrik Schumacher

Biography

Hina Jamelle teaches Architectural Design at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where she is the Director of Urban Housing and teaches final year Graduate Option Studios.