Rehab: Housing Concepts and Spaces

By Angelo Sampieri and Fabrizio Paone

At the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, housing became a central commodity in the short-circuit system of mortgages granted to private individuals and businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, and in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, housing--as a right, in its most radical form--re-emerged due to local housing, migration, and health emergencies. In light of an eclipse of a general discourse on housing, a new secular and international ethics arose, both foreign and superior to nation states. This book returns to a broader notion of housing: using metaphors of sanitary and salvific reinstatement, it retrieves case studies from the 1950s for re-conceptualizing the housing question in contemporary architecture and visual arts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3868597166
• ISBN13: 9783868597165
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Jovis Verlag
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 8.9"