by Fabrizio Paone (Author), Angelo Sampieri (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Fabrizio Paone, architect and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning,
is associate professor of Urban Planning at the Interuniversity Department of
Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino. Here he deals
with urban planning theory and history of ideas with a particular focus on port
planning and housing.
Angelo Sampieri,
architect and PhD in Urban Planning, is associate professor of Urban planning
at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico
di Torino. Here he deals with theories and cultures of contemporary urban
design with a particular focus on landscape and housing.