Life in the #DDR: #Rostock 1965, Klement-Gottwald-Straße (now Parkstraße). photo : Günther Römer
Life in the #DDR: #Rostock 1965, Klement-Gottwald-Straße (now Parkstraße). photo : Günther Römer
Typology: Housing Estate | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/typology/typology-housing-estate/10008640.article
From the green quadrangles of medieval almshouses to towering banlieues, the history of mass housing represents architecture at its most high-minded – which makes its failures all the more painful
The housing estate, whether it is built by a charity, developer, government or cooperative, is essentially a collection of dwellings disposed in space. The design of this negative space is as significant as that of the individual unit – a precept that has not always been sufficiently acknowledged. From the medieval almshouse to the blocks of Pruitt-Igoe, estate-space has changed in function and texture, coagulating and thinning with and against the space of the city and the wider territory.
#Pegida : l’Allemagne islamophobe par dizaines de milliers
▻http://lahorde.samizdat.net/2015/01/12/pegida-lallemagne-islamophobe-par-dizaines-de-milliers
Depuis la fin du mois de décembre 2014, on a pu voir des manifestations régulières dans différentes villes d’Allemagne, emmenées par une toute nouvelle organisation, Pegida, professant un racisme d’un nouveau genre (en #Allemagne tout du moins), que les médias allemands appellent le racisme du « milieu », au sens du milieu (et non des extrêmes) de [&hellip