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Housing
04.15.13: Lawrence Vale & Annemarie Gray
The Displacement DecathlonOn Places, Lawrence Vale and Annemarie Gray compare the cases of communities displaced by the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where plans for the 2016 Games are unfolding, and Atlanta, 20 years ago.
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03.05.13: Arjun Appadurai
Housing and HopeOn Places, Arjun Appadurai explores the global challenges of housing in megacities, and argues for the relationship of secure housing to human dignity and full citizenship.
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02.12.13: Mitchell Schwarzer
The Emergence of Container UrbanismOn Places, Mitchell Schwarzer charts the rise of container urbanism from the mid 20th century to now, focusing especially on the dynamic potential of repurposed shipping containers to shape a new kind of city life.
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02.04.13: D.J. Waldie
Beautiful and Terrible: Aeriality and the Image of SuburbiaOn Places, D.J. Waldie explores the relationship between aerial photography and the postwar suburban boom, a relationship at once materialistic and transcendent, "beautiful and terrible."
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12.06.12: Michael Light & Aaron Rothman
Above Lake Las VegasOn Places, aerial photographs of the bankrupt luxury communities of Lake Las Vegas, by Michael Light.
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10.04.12: Melissa Dittmer
Lafayette Park: Living in Ordered ExhibitionOn Places, Melissa Dittmer describes the experience of living in Mies van der Rohe's Lafayette Park in Detroit, where the glass-and-steel architecture encourages "a sense of intimacy that fosters community."
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07.23.12: William L. Fox
On the Road HomeOn Places, William Fox reviews The Prehistory of Home, by anthropologist Jerry Moore — and explores what it means to be home.
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07.19.12: Anisha Gade
Olympic Urbanism: The Athletes' VillageOn Places, a slideshow on the urban form of Olympic Villages, from derelict ruins in Berlin to suburban townhomes in Sydney to public housing in Athens.
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06.28.12: Kenny Cupers
Paris: Life FormsOn Places, a slideshow by Kenny Cupers documenting the nuanced realities of life in the public housing estates of suburban Paris.
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06.25.12: Reinhold Martin, Raphael Sperry, Amit C. Price Patel, Liz Ogbu & Tom Angotti
The Housing QuestionOn Places, a debate inspired by the MoMA exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, organized by the Buell Center and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility.
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06.14.12: Henk Wildschut & Aaron Rothman
ShelterOn Places, a portfolio by photographer Henk Wildschut documents a crisis hidden in plain sight — the network of transient camps set up all across Europe by undocumented workers from Africa and Asia.
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02.23.12: David Schalliol
A Method of LivingOn Places, photos by David Schalliol show the dramatic transformation of public housing in Chicago — the demolition of the city's infamous projects and their replacement with mixed-income, new-urbanist-style communities.
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02.20.12: Lawrence Vale
Housing Chicago: Cabrini-Green to Parkside of Old TownOn Places, Lawrence Vale recounts the troubled saga of Chicago's now-demolished Cabrini-Green, and the mixed-income new-urbanist style communities that are replacing the old public housing.
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02.14.12: Jonathan Massey
Housing and the 99 PercentOn Places, Jonathan Massey traces a history of American home ownership, from the boosterism of the 1920s to postwar suburbia to the housing bubble to current foreclosure crisis.
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11.07.11: Reinhold Martin
Occupy: What Architecture Can DoOn Places, Reinhold Martin explores the role of architecture in the Occupy Wall Street movement — and in the larger challenges of constructing a better and more equitable society.
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10.20.11: Jason Griffiths
Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban HousingOn Places, British architect Jason Griffiths offers a close reading of modern American suburbia, where mass production meets the myth of the arcadian frontier.
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07.07.11: David Heymann
The Eastward-Moving HouseOn Places, David Heymann's "The Eastward-Moving House" — a continuation of the imaginative history of American home-building begun in J.B. Jackson's "The Westward-Moving House."
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07.05.11: J.B. Jackson
The Westward-Moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in ThemOn Places, a republication of J.B. Jackson's classic essay "The Westward-Moving House," which traces the evolution of the American house — the American dream — over three centuries and across the continent.
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12.15.10: Jon Calame
The Roma of Rome: Heirs to the Ghetto SystemOn Places, historic preservationist Jon Calame documents, in words and images, the state-sponsored enclaves — or ghettos — that house the Roma, or Gypsies, of Rome.
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05.17.10: Beth Weinstein
Self-Fab HouseArchitect Beth Weinstein reviews Self-Fab House, a compilation of the results of a competition sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
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