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Urban housing experiments in Yugoslavia 1948-1970 [PDF]
Spatium, 2015 In the period from 1948 to 1970 urban housing architecture in Yugoslavia had a distinctly experimental character as it strived intensively towards research and establishment of new architectural patterns and values that would mark the period of ...
Alfirević Đorđe +1 more
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Devicology: Expanding fieldwork possibilities for architectural observations in inhabited interiors
Cidades, Comunidades e Território, 2022 Japanese mass housing from the 1960s has a colloquial nickname — danchi, which can be translated as “common land.” Originally celebrated by the public as a highly desirable living environment, danchi are now becoming a source of problems for the ...
Tatiana Knoroz
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Vegaviana, a colonization village
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The Instituto Nacional de Colonización built a series of villages all over Spain to support farmers who were working on the newly established irrigated lands.
Inmaculada Bote Alonso +1 more
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Putting the User First? A pioneering Scottish experiment in architectural research [PDF]
, 2008 This article traces the story of a unique Scottish experiment in Modernist architectural research in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: the Architecture Research Unit of Edinburgh University, one of the leaders in the UK's post-war efforts to expand the ...
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Sunny flats will replace…A congested slum block
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The present text traces the post war slum clearance program in Sydney, Australia, that saw the construction of modern blocks of flats drawn from international examples of rehousing schemes. This State-funded urban renewal program continued from the late
Noni Boyd
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La Cité du Lignon has been distinguished with the Europa Nostra and SIA Awards
Docomomo Journal, 2022 The Re-Use research on the Housing Complex of Lignon (Switzerland, Geneva) has been awarded with the Europa Nostra Prize for Research in 2013. The project, published in docomomo Journal 44 (2011/1), has been developed by the EPFL's Laboratory of ...
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 The neighborhood unit (Sector) in Chandigarh was conceived as a self-sufficient, repeated element to create the matrix of the city along with the hierarchical circulation system defined by the 7Vs to disburse traffic in an orderly manner.
Sangeeta Bagga
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Housing for the greatest number
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Addressing a broader vision, entitled “Housing for All”, this issue is dedicated to the welfare era, when governments across the world established ambitious housing programs to provide housing for the greatest number and improve the citizens’ living ...
Ana Tostões
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Post-War Building Materials in Housing in Brussels 1945-1975
Bulletin KNOB, 2017 Review of a book authored by Stephanie Van de Voorde, Inge Bertels and Ine Wouters.
Ronald Stenvert
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Preserving a modern housing model
Docomomo Journal, 2021 This paper examines the history of Pedregulho Housing Neighborhood, built between 1948 and 1960 by the Department of Popular Housing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the first concepts to the restoration in 2015.
Flávia Brito do Nascimento
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