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.
* A timely andprovacative look at radical architecture
* Discusses political implicatinos of 'non-plan'
* Impressive combination of contributors all well known in their
field
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