The Architecture of Change

Building a Better World

Jerilou Hammett, Maggie Wrigley, Jerilou Hammett, Maggie Wrigley

• Publisher: UNM Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Architecture
• Print ISBN:
  9780826353856
• Subtopic: Architecture General
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826353863

The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn’t change, who saw the possibility of making something better, and didn’t esitate to act.

Breaking down the stereotypes surrounding “socially engaged architecture,” this book shows who can actually impact the lives of communities. Like Bernard Rudofsky’s seminal Architecture Without Architects, it explores communal architecture produced not by specialists but by people, drawing on their common lives and experiences, who have a unique insight into their particular needs and environments. These unsung heroes are teachers and artists, immigrants and activists, grandmothers in the projects, students and planners, architects and residents of some of our poorest places. Running through their stories is a constant theme of social justice as an underlying principle of the built environment. This book is about opening one’s eyes to new ways of interpreting the world, and how to go about changing it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Sidewalk Living Rooms
• People’s Grocery Gets Rolling Through West Oakland
• Hip-Hop High Gives Dropouts a Second Chance
• Power to the People: Little Village Hunger Strike Yields New High School
• The Cure for Homelessness is Housing
• Writings on the Healing Walls
• Disguise: Going Undercover to Experience Life as an Elder
• Design/Build Program Broadens Experience
• One Dc
• The Village of Arts and Humanities: An Interview with Lily Yeh
• A School as Big as New York City
• Interfaith Community Building Group
• Voices of Opposition
• Power of the Purse
• Bullet Space: Home as an act of Resistance
• Let us Now Praise the Women of Wentworth
• Doug Young: A Critical Urbanist Looks at the Global City
• Whose History is it, Anyway?
• Putting a Face on Hunger
• Barefoot Artists
• Home is Where the House is: Rebuilding Communities by Building Houses
• Baltimore Block Builder: Reclaiming the Inner City One Street at a Time
• From an Acorn New Communities Grow
• Radical Builders in the Bronx
• Chicago Museum to Feature the History of Public Housing
• Rosie’s Girls Show What Girl Power is About
• Behind the Blue Suit
• Marking the Places that Matter
• Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: An Interview with Fredda Vladeck
• Healing Community Through Play
• Self-Help Housing
• It Takes a Community to Raise a Family
• Community Without Walls Builds Community Among Seniors
• The Evolution of Universal Design
• The Best Little Trailer House in Kansas
• Am I Old Yet?
• Acknowledgments