RMB 11 – House and Housing

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

One Midterm presentation and 1 final presentation

Case Studies (group work)

Final paper including presentation and discussion

Learning Outcomes

Develop students' ability to understand and research the architectural culture and the collective space organization.
The analytical effort is to identify the architecture discipline as a unity process between art and technique.
Develop the ability to analyse and understand the urban shape in its relationship with the architecture, in particular
with the housing production.
Identify the multiple evolution stages, relating them with several urban fabric and layouts, with ordinary or
exceptional programs.
Production of a Scientific Paper. Development of the critical ability of the students as a form of research. Focus on
the analysis of key works taken as case studies likely to stimulate reflection and discussion on the shape and life of
architecture and cities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The House and Housing course introduces the fundamentals of an applied research on the critical history and
architectural theory analysis based on the binomial: architecture and city, with an emphasis on the housing
production as the major architectural program.
Deepen the knowledge and the historical city context through time in order to understand the housing production
as a key role in shaping the city in Europe. Develop an operational history, considering that the organized
information and the produced knowledge can contribute to structuring: the support for an “informed” architectural
project; the definition of development strategies; the decision- making; the rehabilitation intervention and the
structures’ reuse.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Final paper including presentation and discussion: 100.0%

Bibliography

AVERMAETE, Tom, SWENARTON, Mark, VAN DEN HEUVEL, Dirk (Ed.).(2015).Architecture of the Welfare State,
London and New York. Routledge.
CARAMELLINO Gaia(2015).Post-war middle-class housing: models, construction and change,Bern: Peter Lang.
DELEMONTEY, Yvan(2015). Reconstruire La France. L'Aventure du Béton Assemblé,1940-1955. Paris:Éditions de la
Villette.
DE PIERRI Filippo(2015).“Stories of Houses”. Observing post-war middle-class housing in Italy, Peter Lang
Publisher.
DE VOS Els (2010) “Living with High-Rise Modernity. The Modernist Kiel Housing Estate of Renaat Braem, a
Catalyst to a Socialist Modern Way of Life?”, in Home Cultures, 7:2, 134-158.
ELEB, Monique, SIMON, Philippe (2013). Entre Confort, Désir et Normes: le Logement Contemporain (1995- 2012).
Bruxelles: Editions Mardaga.
FERREIRA, Zara;TOSTÕES, Ana (ed.), Docomomo Journal,n. 65- Housing for all. Lisboa, Docomomo International,
2021.