Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism
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Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

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Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

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Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to let people shape the built environment they want to live and work in.How can buildings better reflect the needs of their inhabitants? How can cities better facilitate the work and recreation of their many populaces? Modernism had promised a functionalist approach to resolving the architectural needs of the twentieth-century, yet the design of cities and buildings often appears to confound the needs of those who use them - their design and layout being highly regulated by restrictive legislation, planning controls and bureaucracy.Non-Plan considers the theoretical and conceptual frameworks within which architecture and urbanism have sought to challenge entrenched boundaries of control, focusing on the architectural history of the post-war period to the present day. This provocative book will be of interest to architects, planners and students of architecture, design, town-planning and architectural history. Its contributors include architects, critics and historians, including many whose work helped shape the Non-Plan debate during the period.List of contributors: Cedric Price, Benjamin Franks, Elizabeth Lebas, Eleonore Kofman, Ben Highmore, Yona Friedman, Paul Barker, Clara Greed, Barry Curtis, Colin Ward, Ian Horton, John Beck, Chinedu Umenyilora and Malcolm Miles.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781135142643
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

INDEX

Aalto, Alvar, 169
Abercrombie, Patrick, 69
Adhocism, 152, 180
Adshead, Stanley, 69
Advertising, 131
Advisory Service for Squatters, 43
Advocacy, and advocacy planning, IX, 181–182, 203
Aesthetics, 4, 66–79 passim
Africa, 62
Agora, 61
Aix-en-Provence, see Congrès Internationaux
d'Architecture Moderne
Alexander, Christopher, 101, 142, 152
Alienation, 60, 156
Alloway, Lawrence, 56
America, see United States of America
Amery, Colin and Dan Cruickshank, The Rape of Britain, 171
Anarchism, and anarchy, 2, 5, 37, 44–51 passim, 151, 152, 154, 177
–‘ontological anarchism’, 42
–anarchist-communism, 40
–Anarchy magazine, 38, 49
Anderson, Stanford, 25
–Planning for Diversity and Choice, 25
Angry Brigade, 40
Anthropology, Structural Anthropology, 148, 180
Antoniou, Manuela, 187
Apollo space craft, 127, 128
Archigram, V (frontispiece), 49, 77–78, 126, 129, 137, 126–137, 138–154, 138, 140, 145, 149, 152, 153, 172
–Archigram, magazine, 126, 127, 129, 132, 135, 137
– (Cook, Peter), Info-Gonks, 147
– (Cook, Peter), Plug-In City, 77, 131, 135, 139, 142, 173
–(Crompton, Dennis), Computer City, 135, 136
– (Greene, David), 137, 151
– (Greene, David), Living Pod, 150
– (Herron, Ron), Free Time Node, 141
– (Herron, Ron), Urban Action: Tune Up, 132
– (Herron, Ron), Walking City, 135, 137
– (Webb, Mike), 148
– (Webb, Mike), Cushicle, 150
– (Webb, Mike), Suitaloon, 150
...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Non-Plan
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. PREFACE
  7. CONTRIBUTORS
  8. CREDITS
  9. #01 PAUL BARKER: THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
  10. #02 CEDRIC PRICE: CEDRIC PRICE'S NON-PLAN DIARY
  11. #03 BEN FRANKS: NEW RIGHT/NEW LEFT AN ALTERNATIVE EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM
  12. #04 COLIN WARD: ANARCHY AND ARCHITECTURE A PERSONAL RECORD
  13. #05 BARRY CURTIS: THE HEART OF THE CITY
  14. #06 IAN HORTON: PERVASION OF THE PICTURESQUE ENGLISH ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETICS AND LEGISLATION, 1945-1965
  15. #07 ELEONORE KOFMAN AND ELIZABETH LEBAS: RECOVERY AND REAPPROPRIATION IN LEFEBVRE AND CONSTANT
  16. #08 JONATHAN HUGHES: THE INDETERMINATE BUILDING
  17. #09 YONA FRIEDMAN: FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM
  18. #10 JOHN BECK: BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE POLITICS OF SHELTER
  19. #11 HADAS STEINER: OFF THE MAP
  20. #12 SIMON SADLER: OPEN ENDS THE SOCIAL VISIONS OF 1960S NON-PLANNING
  21. #13 BEN HIGHMORE: THE DEATH OF THE PLANNER? PARIS CIRCA 1968
  22. #14 JONATHAN HUGHES: AFTER NON-PLAN RETRENCHMENT AND REASSERTION
  23. #15 CLARA GREED: CAN MAN PLAN? CAN WOMAN PLAN BETTER?
  24. #16 MALCOLM MILES: LIVING LIGHTLY ON THE EARTH
  25. #17 CHINEDU UMENYILORA: EMPOWERING THE SELF-BUILDER
  26. #18 MARTIN PAWLEY: TOWARDS AN UNORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE
  27. #19 MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: PARASITE
  28. INDEX