Costa Santos / Bertolino / May Home and Community

Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-04168-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten

This book explores the connections between architecture, home and community. It is based on the empirical examination of domestic experiences in a post-war modernist housing scheme: Claremont Court in Edinburgh, designed by Basil Spence. Offering a novel cross-disciplinary approach, it broadens our understanding of home and community by showing how residents create homes and articulate a sense of belonging, which is inescapably bounded by architecture.

The first part of the book explains the relevance of Claremont Court through a cross-disciplinary reading from both an architectural and a socio-cultural perspective. The second part explores the domestic experiences of the current residents. The final part further develops the relationship between architecture, home and community, offering valuable insights for current debates on housing, home and community.

A must-read for researchers from architecture, urban studies and the social sciences with an interest in housing. The book also provides ideas for conducting interdisciplinary research using a combination of text-based and visual methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costa Santos, Sandra

Bertolino, Nadia

May, Vanessa

Hicks, Stephen

Lewis, Camilla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Wohngebäude

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Home and community: issues of public concern at the turn of the 1960s in Britain 2. Claremont Court: Looking Back at Home and Community Design 3. Constructing a Sense of Home: Negotiating Meanings Embedded in Architecture 4. Atmosphere: Reflecting on the Embodied and Sensory Experience of Architecture 5. Belonging and the Temporal Dimensions of Architecture 6. Conclusion: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme on Home and Community

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Costa Santos is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Northumbria University, UK

Nadia Bertolino is Research Fellow in the Department of Architecture at Northumbria University, UK

Vanessa May is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK

Stephen Hicks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Manchester, UK

Camilla Lewis is Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK