Volume #43: Self-Building City
April 2015
There is a theory that the more organized (read: developed) a society is, the less self-sufficient it becomes. All sorts of services and amenities, from housing to energy, from culture to justice, are centrally organized and distributed. But is that necessarily so? Or are we heading for a new order in which decentralized and self-reliant become the norm?
The credit crisis made us more aware that we, as individuals, but also as global community, have new options to work with. There are new production technologies available, there are new ways for social interaction and collaboration, there are new ways to finance. The challenge now is how to connect these dots. This Volume issue zooms in on housing and self-building as field of (inter)action.
Contributors
Barnaby Bennett, René Boer, Eric van der Burg, Adri Duivesteijn, Stefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea, Cosmina Goagea, Maarten Hajer, Léon Heddes, Javeria Masood, Timothy Moore, Nelson Mota, Alex Retegan, Jan Rydén, Matthew Stadler, Jacqueline Tellinga, Friso de Zeeuw.
Details
Volume #43: Self-building City
120 pages
Binding: Soft-Cover
ISBN 9789077966433
Price: € 19.50
Editor-in-chief: Arjen Oosterman
Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley
Design: Irma Boom and Sonja Haller
Publisher: Stichting Archis
Release: April 22th, 2015
