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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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Socioeconomic stratification and urban housing in the postsocialist Belgrade [PDF]

Демографија
In urban studies, there is a strong link between socioeconomic status and housing conditions. Belgrade's housing stock is diverse, ranging from recently constructed buildings to pre-World War II structures, socialist-era settlements, and informal ...
Nikola Jocić, Aljoša Budović, Ivan Ratkaj   +2 more
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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, Beatriz Montalbán Pozas   +1 more
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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 ...
Docomomo Journal
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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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Building “with the Systems” vs. Building “in the System” of IMS Open Technology of Prefabricated Construction: Challenges for New “Infill” Industry for Massive Housing Retrofitting

Energies, 2018
Post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade and its special form of integrated prefabrication has been analyzed with a strong interest in transformation capacity of industrialized building model (IBM) on different technical levels ...
Jelena Nikolic
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Housing explorations. Unidad Vecinal Portales in Santiago

Docomomo Journal, 2021
This article explores the contribution of Unidad Vecinal Portales – built in Santiago de Chile by the studio Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo y Huidobro – to the debates on social housing in Chile between the 1940s and 1960s.
Umberto Bonomo
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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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Modernity and housing production in France after WWII

Docomomo Journal, 2021
After the collapse of 1940 and Occupation (1940-1944), France experienced a remarkable renewal after Liberation in 1944. Through reconstruction and intensive efforts to bring the country out of the housing crisis, the State set up a powerful production ...
Joseph Abram
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