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House and Contradiction. Quaderns #265

Name: 
Ethel Baraona Pohl
City: 
Barcelona
Country: 
Spain
Category: 
Housing
Contents: 

The most recent issue of Quaderns [the Journal of the Association of Architects of Catalonia], is called ‘House and Contradiction’, and it’s focused on the contemporary need of rethinking the concept of housing, based on the idea that ‘Contradictions’ – whether political, social or economic – should act as triggers capable of pulling all the strings of architecture.

This issue is devoted to domesticity, but with the understanding of it as a complex combination of politics with form, connecting differing scales and extending its domain from the macroeconomy to the most irreducible form of architecture. In the current times, while we’re witnessing the executing of evictions in several countries of the world, we need to think that perhaps, domesticity is no more than an excuse to consider how, based on all these contradictions, architecture needs to reflect in order to come up with renewed ideas that will allow it to advance towards the reconquest of what is public.

More info: www.quaderns.coac.net

In what way does your proposal contribute to the open society?
Because it presents a combination of theoretical text with formal proposals, envisioned to give an overview of the present situation and some models that can be useful to react to the contradiction between the financial crisis with the right to housing, showing models as co-op housing, and property trust, among others.

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