Housing Histories : New Research Strategies for Twentieth-century Residential Architecture

Caramellino, Gaia (EDT)/ Pieri, Filippo De (EDT)

Bloomsbury Visual Arts（2026/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350532373
• DDC分類 728.0904

Full Description

Housing Histories explores how the study of 20th-century housing has posed specific problems for architectural historians, and how it has - as a result - yielded radically innovative approaches and methodologies of significance for the wider field of architectural history.

Global research in architectural history is currently witnessing a tension between 'conservative' approaches rooted in traditional procedures (the study of archival sources, the close material observation of buildings) and 'critical' approaches that push for a radical change in narratives and attitudes.

This book presents a collection of new research practices which explore unusual or hybrid methodologies. Fifteen leading architectural historians from different academic and cultural contexts present their own approaches to the historical study of modern dwelling landscapes, testing a variety of questions, methods and instruments, showing how these can be used within the context of a specific case study, and showing how the methodological choices made in the reconstruction of the history of places can effectively challenge shared public narratives about the spatial and social geography of cities.

The four parts of the book relate to specific areas of methodological innovation: the study of ordinary actors and processes by means of non-standard sources; the use of micro-historical and anthropological fieldwork; the use of exhibitions and public history initiatives as research tools; and a re-appraisal of the role played by urban and national histories within multi-scalar research agendas. The stories presented in the case-studies offer a nuanced and stereotype-free representation of 20th-century housing environments, altogether revealing the history of modern housing as a rich testing ground for experimenting with practices and methodologies of historical inquiry.

Contents

1. Introduction - Gaia Caramellino (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) & Filippo De Pieri (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy)

Part I: Microhistories of Housing
2. Inhabiting Abraxas: A Microhistory of the Neoliberal Transformation in Paris - Anne Kockelkorn (TU Delft, Netherlands)
3. Practicing Hybrid Microhistories of Housing: A Retrospective Fieldwork Journal - Filippo De Pieri (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy)

Part II: Exhibitions, Performances, and the Public
4. Episodes, Conditions, Conflations: On the Analytical and Narrative Devices of Three Housing Exhibitions - Susanne Schindler (Harvard University, USA)
5. Pack Methodology: Housing Research in Times of Crisis - Inge Daniels (University of Oxford, UK)
6. The Sound Studies Habit: Recording Housing History, and Listening to It - Sandra Parvu (Paris-Val de Seine School of Architecture, France) & Alice Sotgia (Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture, France)

Part III: The Global and the National
7. Mass Housing: A Global History. Themes and Methodologies - Miles Glendinning (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. Discursive Sources and Historical Narrative: Efficiency in Socialist Housing (Romania, 1958-74) - Dana Vais (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Part IV: Archives and the Ordinary
9. Atelier 66 and the Athenian Polykatoikìa: Control and Agency Bids in the 1960s-1980s Greek Housing Market - Konstantina Kalfa (Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece) & Stavros Alifragkis (University of West Attica, Greece)
10. Public Housing, Public History: Portugal's 'Homes for Poor Families' Program - Ricardo Costa Agarez (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
11. Writing the History of Ordinary Housing: Entangled Agencies and Narratives and in the Study of Everyday Practices - Gaia Caramellino (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy)

Index