‘Housing Builds Cities’
Urban Planning (September vol. 4 issue 3, 2019)
A brief note from the editors describes the aim of this thematic issue:
Far from nostalgically celebrate the 90th anniversary of the second CIAM, which indeed opened in October 1929 in Frankfurt, the present issue is intended as collective work, a springboard which aims to widen the debate over housing experiences beyond geographical and temporal frameworks. The focus of that event, the Existenzminimum, has often been cited as representing a fundamental contribution to the rational design of the modern dwelling. But, the debates during that event went beyond the definition of this concept, because demonstrated, on the one hand, how the responsibility of architects would imply the resolution of multiple technical aspects, starting from the typological concern stretching towards the town planning aspects, and on the other hand, the calling to develop a multifaceted intellectual vision of society.
The title selected for the present issue denotes the different scales of the project, the aim is to achieve a something more. First and foremost, the objective is not strictly confined to a historical understanding of facts around the 1929 congress. Today a critically objective approach is useful to examine past contributions and, if applicable, their actualization. Secondly, this special issue intends to address the CIAMs’ theoretical and architectural legacy. The hypothesis on their interpretation suggests that these are still topical issues today. The issue comprises fourteen articles which investigate, through different applied methodologies, the years from the first steps of the CIAMs to the 1929 aftermath, analyze the post-war production and explore many case-studies, of which some are also geographically far from a Eurocentric vision as well as contemporary realities.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
New perspectives on the II CIAM onwards: how does housing build cities?
Alessandro Porotto, Chiara Monterumisi
FIRST SECTION
Housing belongs to the city
The Modern Project: a Research Hypothesis
Paola Viganò
The Legacy of CIAM in the Netherlands: Continuity and Innovation in Dutch Housing Design
Susanne Komossa and Martin Aarts
The Urban Development of Lelystad: approach to the planning history of a Dutch New Town through the analysis of its residential neighbourhoods
Lidwine Spoormans, Daniel Navas-Carrillo, Hielkje Zijlstra, Teresa Pérez-Cano
Das alte Frankfurt
Silvia Malcovati
Wilhelm Riphahn in Cologne (1913-1963): Urban policies and social housing between innovation and conservation
Andreina Milan
CIAM Goes East: The Inception of Tehran’s Typical Housing Unit
Hamed Khosravi
Housing-Based Urban Planning? Sir Patrick Geddes’ Modern Master Plan for Tel Aviv, 1925
Yael Allweil and Noa Zemer
SECOND SECTION
Typological units
Moving on: Is Existenzminimum still relevant?
Bruno Marchand
Modernist Housing: From Ideal Proposals to Serial Developments. Victor Bourgeois’ Schemes in the Light of Post-6 War Developments in Brussels
Gérald Ledent
Contested Architecture. The ‘Woba’ Residential Colony in Basel, 1930
Rhea Rieben
‘The Towers of Terror’: a critical analysis of Ernő Goldfinger’s Balfron and Trellick Towers
Nicola Braghieri
Building Together: Citizens’ Participation in the Urban Renewal of The Hague (Netherlands) in the 1980s
Nelson Mota
African housing renaissance ensuring favorable conditions for all inhabitants: the case of Gacuriro valley satellite settlements Kigali, Rwanda
Manlio Michieletto, Adedayo Olatunde, Victor Muka Bay
THIRD SECTION
Actualising CIAM ideas
CIAM and its outcomes
Eric Mumford
Alexander Klein and Karel Teige: between Rationalization and Political Project. The Existenzminimum project from the II CIAM to Today
Andrea Migotto, Marson Korbi
Does the Homogenous City Belong to the Past?
Valentin Bourdon
Reinterpreting Existenzminimum in Contemporary Affordable Housing Solutions
Sara Lia Brysch
EXHIBITION
HOUSING Frankfurt Wien Stockholm. Exhibition of 1920s-1930s housing initiatives
Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto
