The twenty-fifth volume of the CENTER series explores housing beyond the established extremes of (suburban) house and (urban) apartment as an incubator for new forms of (co)habitation and urban morphology. Edited by Martin Hättasch, Radical Middle Grounds brings together architects and scholars to consider housing as a middle ground between unit and city, between form and process, and between enduring typology and design invention.
ISBN: 978-0-934951-43-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: What Is the Middle Ground, Anyway?, by Martin Hättasch
1. BETWEEN BUILDING AND CITY: HOUSING AS URBANISM
Hierarchy and Equivalence in Urban Reform, by Scott Colman and Albert Pope
From Crescent to Archipelago: Situational Housing on the Metropolitan Periphery, by Dean J. Almy
RE–RE:AD, by Russell N. Thomsen
An Incomplete Project: Towards a Recontextualization of Modernity and the Urban House Prototype in Los Angeles, by COA: Central Office of Architecture, reprinted from Re: American Dream: Six Urban Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995)
100 Mile City, by Peter Barber Architects
2. BETWEEN FORM AND PROCESS: NEW COLLECTIVE AGENDAS
Architectures of Sharing: Limited-Equity Cooperatives as a Middle Ground for Decommodified Housing, by Chris Masahiko Moyer
Urban Village, by Krishnan Lal Mistry and Allison Walvoord
Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Urban Village in the American Landscape, by Marc Norman
Neighborly Houses: Collective Clusters, by James Michael Tate
Housing Forms for New Family Forms, by Neeraj Bhatia
Bay State Cohousing, by French 2D
Co-Housing Denver, by PRODUCTORA
3. BETWEEN PERMANENCE AND REINVENTION: LONGEVITY AND ADAPTATION
PREVI Lima: Lessons from the Progressive Home in a High-Density, Low-Rise Neighborhood, by Fernando García-Huidobro
Sites-and-Services in Performance: Mass Housing Design beyond Efficiency and Resilience, by Nelson Mota and Rohan Varma
Templates for a Discursive Practice: Medium-Density Housing in the Design Studio, by Martin Hättasch
Expanding the Middle: Diversified Walk-Up Typologies for Urban Housing, by Brian Phillips and Deb Katz
Powerhouse, XS House, The Block, by ISA
EDITOR
Martin Hättasch
MANAGING EDITOR
Bridget Gayle Ground
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Emma Margulies
Emilio Sanchez
COPY EDITOR
Lucas Freeman
DESIGN
M. Wright
