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Jean Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet’s Housing Building in Ivry-Sur-Seine. (1969-1975)

A powerful ensemble built between 1969 and 1975 by Jean Renaudie and his wifeRenée Gailhoustet at Ivry-sur-Seine.

These 8 buildings see the architects joyfully play with the plasticity of concrete, fade the limits between public and private spaces, dialogue between natural and artificial materials, and provide a variety of functions that is more usual in an urban scale environment than in a building ensemble.

All this without falling in the contemporary modernist clichés of 1950′s and 60′s, so typical in Paris’ banlieu.

I guess you cannot really explain Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet’s legacy better than these lines byLéopold Lambert:

“In my opinion, Jean Renaudie is one of the very best French architects of the last fifty years. His two housing complexes in Ivry sur Seine near Paris (…) and in Givors near Lyon are two very successful examples of architecture becoming urban in an era (50′s-60′s) that created what is now famous as the French suburbs catastrophe. In fact, those two housing complexes are extremely interesting in the fact that they embody a real urban density, mix several social levels, organize urban life on a multitude of storeys, blur the limits between private and public areas and supply a little piece of garden to every apartment. This architecture is full of episodes, surprizing moments of beauty in an urban artefact/landscape full of hideaways.”

–Text from Socks

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Reveals how credit, debt, and accounting shape and influence our lives

Commercial developers call it “dirt”, the plot of land that will support plans to...

#dirt #real estate #vanpoli

“Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.“

#dirt #mit #landscape architecture

“Atelier d'architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective platform which conducts explorations, actions and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social and political emerging practices in the contemporary city.”

“It is by micro-political acting that we want to participate in making the city more ecological and more democratic, to make the space of proximity less dependent on top-down processes and more accessible to its users. The ‘self-managed architecture’ is an architecture of relationships, processes and agencies of persons, desires, skills and know-hows. Such an architecture does not correspond to a liberal practice but asks for new forms of association and collaboration, based on exchange and reciprocity and involving all those interested (individuals, organisations, institutions), whatever is their scale.”

“Our projects focuss on issues of self-organisation and self-management of collective spaces, emerging networks and catalyst processes in urban contexts, resistance to profit driven development, recycling and ecologically friendly constructions, collective production of knowledge and alternative culture.”

#politics #publics #social practice #Architecture #aaa

Residents of the La Latina neighbourhood take over a site earmarked for the construction of a public facility, converting it into a meeting place for a wide-ranging series of events including inflatable pools, open-air cinema and neighbourhood breakfasts.

#public space #community

“eff the ineffable,” as the incisive Samuel Beckett once said (in Eagleton 2006)

#samuel beckett

Flying above New York City in a helicopter can be a beautiful thing, until you look down and see that someone has stolen and is living your

#urban gardening #green roof

A rise in commonly owned spaces and services hopes to reclaim the city for the public good, providing a participatory alternative to exclusive urban development. But how can it be upscaled from local garden projects?

#cities #communities #society #politics #commons

Website based on the thinking and practice of Christopher Alexander. Guides users through process of issues of design or re-design of houses, places, and neighborhoods based on pattern thinking.

“Our goal is to help everyone make our neighborhoods places of belonging, places of health and well-being, and places where people will want to live and work. This has become possible through the use of Generative Codes, Christopher Alexander's latest work in the effort to make possible conception and construction of living, beautiful communities that have real guts -- not the sugary sweetness of pseudo-traditional architecture.“

#christopher alexander #architecture #new urbanism

Institute for Human Activities

“The new institute observes a gap criticality; socially engaged contemporary art practices typically deal with labor conditions, migration and social injustice. This may well generate awareness, as well as possibilities for social equality, in for example Peru, the Parisian banlieues or Africa. However, more often than not these notions remain confined to a symbolic level, only. On a material level these projects generate knowledge and beauty and wealth of the cities where these interventions are shown, discussed and sold: Venice, New York, Berlin, and yes, also Amsterdam. The IHA aims to overcome this gap. In the Congolese jungle, on a former Unilever Plantation, the IHA founded its first settlement. Through its five-year Gentrification Program, the institute aims to not only enable symbolical reflection but actively deal with the terms and conditions of artistic production—embedded in an economic reality that includes global inequality. Embracing gentrification as a main product of critical art, the IHA aims to relocate it as an effective and progressive tool, and to bridge the gap between perception and intervention. One of the keynote speakers at the opening seminar of the IHA in 2012, portentously, was the infamous urban theorist Richard Florida, with his ideas about art as an engine for economic growth.”

from Gallery Fons Welters press release

Galerie Fons Welters, Bloemstraat 140, 1016 LJ Amsterdam T (+31) 20 423 30 46 (+31) 20 620 84 33, [email protected]

Renzo Martens Institute for Human Activities

#renzo martens #contemporary art #art contemporain #gentrification #othersights

General Comments-

have a material manifestation

use the site in some way- parking lots, cupola

do neighborhood research/interview

Colette Urban is a performance artist based in Newfoundland, Canada

- discipline (as in the discipline of architecture, or history) by virtue of its being an institution is hiding some level of conflict - how can that conflict be day-lighted.. how to be aware of this in any research that we undertake - Factography, 1920’s Soviet concept/practice. As opposed to documentary that is objective, this actively acknowledges and celebrates that facts are made. - Franz Fanon: “we must discuss… we must invent”

#hito steyerl #architecture #factography #urbanism

Two Serb activists who helped remove the Milosevic regime start by exploding common myths about nonviolent struggle.

emphasize humour picking small battles you can win

#revolution #blueprint for revolution #popovic #urbanism #othersights

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