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 equity and public agencies presents important challenges amplified by urbanization. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance.
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.
