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Article: The rhetoric of shelter. (housing design)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
- Author:
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The grand, oversailing roofs of these two blocks give unsentimental grace to a low-cost housing scheme which makes the most of owner participation.
'In forms of dwelling the social ambitions of mankind are most clearly expressed ... The bourgeois felt the struggle for a renewal of dwelling-form as an attack on his cultural image, and not least as a threat to his social and political ideas. But those who felt threatened in the realm of dwelling by the principles of new building did not hesitate to obey the same spirit in the technical realm ... Whenever it is a question of developing power in the material realm, of raising performance capability on a technical level ...