ReHab: Housing Concepts and Spaces
Fabrizio Paone, "ReHab: Housing Concepts and Spaces"
English | ISBN: 3868597166 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 3868597166 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, housing became a central commodity in the short-circuit system of mortgages granted to private individuals and businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, and in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, housing―as a right, in its most radical form―re-emerged due to local housing, migration, and health emergencies. In light of an eclipse of a general discourse on housing, a new secular and international ethics arose, both foreign and superior to nation states. This book returns to a broader notion of housing: using metaphors of sanitary and salvific reinstatement, it retrieves case studies from the 1950s for re-conceptualizing the housing question in contemporary architecture and visual arts.
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