Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural
genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven
profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that
intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and
construct an egalitarian global society. The Routledge Companion to
Architecture and Social Engagement offers a critical enquiry of
socially engaged architecture's current context characterized by
socio-economic inequity, climate change, war, increasing global
poverty, microfinance, the evolving notion of professionalism, the
changing conception of public, and finally the growing academic
interest in re-visioning the social role of architecture. Organized
around case studies from the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, the
United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Nepal,
Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, Germany, Australia, Taiwan, and Japan the
book documents the most important recent developments in the field.
By examining diverse working methods and philosophies of socially
engaged architecture, the handbook shows how socially engaged
architecture is entangled in the global politics of poverty,
reconstruction of the public sphere, changing role of the state,
charity, and neoliberal urbanism. The book presents debates around
the issue of whether architecture actually empowers the
participators and alleviates socio-economic exclusion or if it
instead indirectly sustains an exploitive capitalism. Bringing
together a range of theories and case studies, this companion
offers a platform to facilitate future lines of inquiry in
education, research, and practice.
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