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Housing Solutions through Design explores housing design with a
special focus on affordability. It gives the perspectives of
academics who research and teach on housing; professionals who
design and build, and students who are learning. The book
foregrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and
tomorrow. This book is the second in the Housing the Future Series,
one of the aims of which is to collate a broad sample of the work
being done from a design perspective in universities across the
world on the issue of affordable housing. This very 'real'
engagement with the issues of housing affordability is a key
component of this series and is why the series invites
practitioners to discuss their work. In Housing Solutions through
Design, those practitioners include an award-winning commercial
practice from the UK, Shed KM, and two of the most important
reference points in the area of housing affordability and community
development internationally - the world-renowned Herman
Hertzberger, from the Netherlands, and the US-based but
internationally active Habitat for Humanity. The inclusion of the
work of such practices is not simply important because of their
undoubted international status: it is important because of the work
they do and the role models they represent for a generation of
architects and designers who, in the coming years, will be faced
with the need - and the opportunity - to develop new approaches to
housing design.
In the American psyche, the "Wild West" is a mythic-historical
place where our nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this
violent and uncertain world, the cowboy is the ultimate hero,
fighting the bad guys, forging notions of manhood, and delineating
what constitutes honor as he works to build civilization out of
wilderness. Tales from this mythical place are best known from that
most American of media: film. In the Greco-Roman societies that
form the foundation of Western civilization, similar narratives
were presented in what for them was the most characteristic, and
indeed most filmic, genre: epic. Like Western film, the epics of
Homer and Virgil focus on the mythic-historical past and its
warriors who worked to establish the ideological framework of their
respective civilizations. Through a close reading of films like
High Noon and Shane, this book examines the surprising connections
between these seemingly disparate yet closely related genres,
shedding light on both in the process.
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