#books #architecture | A house is not just a house : projects on housing

A house is not just a house : projects on housing / Tatiana Bilbao ; with essays by Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, & Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
New York : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018.
160 p. : il.
Serie: Transcripts on housing.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica – México / Arquitectura y sociedad / Vivienda social – México

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781941332436
Cita APA-7: Bilbao, Tatiana (2018). A house is not just a house : projects on housing (Ser.). Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.1 HOU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050716

[.en] ‘A House Is Not Just a House’ argues precisely that. The book traces Tatiana Bilbao’s diverse work on housing ranging from large-scale social projects to single-family luxury homes. These projects offer a way of thinking about the limits of housing: where it begins and where it ends. Regardless of type, her work advances an argument on housing that is simultaneously expansive and minimal, inseparable from the broader environment outside of it and predicated on the fundamental requirements of living. Working within the turbulent history of social housing in Mexico, Bilbao argues for participating even when circumstances are less than ideal―and from this participation she is able to propose specific strategies learned in Mexico for producing housing elsewhere. ‘A House Is Not Just a House’ includes a recent lecture by Bilbao at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, as well as reflections from fellow practitioners and scholars, including Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.

#books #architecture | The ordinary : recordings : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

The ordinary : recordings : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / [entrevistas realizadas por] Enrique Walker.
New York : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018.
98 p.
Rem Koolhaas : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Denise Scott Brown : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Enrique Walker : retroactive manifestoes.
ISBN 9781941332061
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Rem Koolhaas / Denise Scott Brown / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ORD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083264504

[.en] Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city-Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York (1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's Made in Tokyo (2001)-this volume traces the history of these "books on cities" by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.