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Volume 21: The Block

Vast urbanizations in developed, developing and under-development countries have one common denominator: an immediate need for quality housing. Housing the billions: never before were those involved in architecture and construction confronted with such a challenge. A one-fits-all solution seems unthinkable since most mass housing schemes in the past failed and originated in dictatorship or total absence of power. Based on an analysis of one of the housing experiments of the past, the Soviet Microrayon, Volume proposes a new prototype. A housing block, which is custom-made but mass-produced and conceived via open source standards.


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2Editorial

Arjen Oosterman
3World Apartment Living

Simon Pennec
4World Housing Shortage

Simon Pennec
6Blocks

Michael Wolf
14Microrayon: Transformations of the Soviet City Under Capitalism

Bart Goldhoorn / Alexander Sverdlov
19Open City: The Soviet Experiment

Anna Bronovitskaya
26Industrialised Building Speech, 1954

Nikita Khrushchev
36Comments on Khrushchev’s Speech

Bart Goldhoorn
27Microrayon Handbook

Dimitrij Zadorin
37Mass Housing in France

Simon Pennec
38Microrayon

Aleksei Naroditski
42War of the Blocks

John Howard / Ron Smith / Tom Frame
48Gated Communities in Warsaw

Maria Lewicka / Katarzyna Zaborska
56Rumors about life in Leipzig Grünau

Ines Weizman
63Mass Housing Guide

Henry Ng / Simon Pennec
82Block City

Bart Goldhoorn
96Mass Housing on the Silver Screen

Simon Pennec
98Standards, Classes, Formats

Bart Goldhoorn
104Rooftop Hop

Students MaHKU
106Open Building A La Russe

Bart Goldhoorn
110Comments on Goldhoorn 1

Theo Deutinger
113Comments on Goldhoorn 2

Bert de Muynck
114Area Development 2.0

Interview with Friso de Zeeuw
116Art or Craft

Rob Dettingmeijer
121L.A. Collective

Supersudaca Reports #1
148Vitality Through Free Spirits

Interview with Pi de Bruijn
150The Average European

Theo Deutinger
151Collectivity, or Why Can’t Just All Get Along?

Leslie Kavanaugh
154Isa Andreu vs. Gropiusstadt

Isa Andreu
156Le Plus Grand Nombre

Dirk van den Heuvel
160Societies o Rejected Standards

James C. Scott
163Microrayon Living

Partizan Publik
+Forms

Francois Blanciak

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