Housing - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Georg Vrachliotis

Contributors Frei Otto, Ingo Niermann, Jo Guldi, Miranda Hall, Dieter Roelstraete, David Madden, Nathalie de Vries, Renato Cymbalista (FICA), George Kafka, Adrian Daub, and more…

Housing is not just a right. Housing is right. Rights are never singular, or solitary; especially when the right is treated as property. Property is always a bundle of rights. Property gives its owner access to certain rights. Housing, then, is the bundle you hold. The house is a vessel, a transfer of entitlements, securities, obligations, and futures. Housing is both a question of ownership and occupancy. The right to the latter is guaranteed by the institutions of the former. Occupancy is to exercise the right of one’s housing. Ownership, however, is not used; it can only be given, or taken.

Housing is a collaboration between e-flux architecture and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chair for Theory of Architecture.

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14 essays

Notes on Staircases

Hilary Sample

Staircases can be perspicaciously complex. The staircase is one place where architects visually and physically connect people within buildings, and wh…

Towards a Diffuse House

Anna Puigjaner

Historically, the idea of home has mirrored a faithful image of society’s deeper social structures. Consequently, housing has often been used as an …

The Right to Abuse

Daniel Loick

Most philosophers—in fact, most people—would agree that use presupposes property; that in order to use something legitimately, one needs the autho…

Gift, Credit, Barter: Architectural Mobilities in Global Socialism

Łukasz Stanek

In the wake of World War II, decolonization and the Cold War reshaped urbanization processes around the planet.1 The untangling of Western European em…

Standoff at Grady Ranch

Adrian Daub

Grady Ranch is a vast, 1,039-acre estate in the rolling hills northwest of San Rafael, CA. The Ranch has been at the center of a controversy since 201…

Crowdfunding Downtown

Renato Cymbalista (FICA) and George Kafka

George Kafka Can you explain the genesis of FICA and, in simple terms, how the model works? Renato Cymbalista (FICA) Around four years ago some peo…

Housing Futures

Nathalie de Vries

Georg Vrachliotis What are the biggest issues facing housing today? Nathalie de Vries We have to create livable cities while living together with e…

Housing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction

David Madden

There is a contradiction at the core of contemporary urbanization. Cities and urban regions are expanding rapidly and exert a growing political and ec…

A Tale of Two Huts

Dieter Roelstraete

“The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.” —Lu…

How to Pick a Smart Lock

Miranda Hall

When groups of lesbians started to break into and squat vacant council properties across London in the early 1970s, they had to learn how to install l…

The Birth of Rent Control

Jo Guldi

Rent control and anti-eviction measures in general have attracted enormous attention in recent years because they directly address the issue of displa…

Automatic Privacy

Ingo Niermann

We will never again shout, sneeze, or cough unmasked without provoking anger and fear. We will never again hug each other without the thrill of shared…

Apartment Buildings for New York

Frei Otto

“Apartment Buildings for New York” is a previously unpublished manifesto by Frei Otto written in 1959. It is a continuation of Otto’s longstanding…

Editorial

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Georg Vrachliotis

Housing is a collaboration between e-flux architecture and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chair for Theory of Architecture featuring contributi…

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Housing & Real Estate, Motherhood and Reproduction, Gentrification, Wealth & Inequality

Housing is a collaboration between e-flux architecture and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Chair for Theory of Architecture.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Georg Vrachliotis Editorial
Frei Otto Apartment Buildings for New York
Ingo Niermann Automatic Privacy
Jo Guldi The Birth of Rent Control
Miranda Hall How to Pick a Smart Lock
Dieter Roelstraete A Tale of Two Huts
David Madden Housing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction
Nathalie de Vries Housing Futures
Renato Cymbalista (FICA) and George Kafka Crowdfunding Downtown
Adrian Daub Standoff at Grady Ranch
Łukasz Stanek Gift, Credit, Barter: Architectural Mobilities in Global Socialism
Daniel Loick The Right to Abuse
Anna Puigjaner Towards a Diffuse House
Hilary Sample Notes on Staircases

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