An Architektur 19-21: Community Design. Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1963

19 Projects
Community Design denominates a socially engaged architecture and planning practice that cultivates a self organized and participatory planning approach since more than 40 years. Its potential for an oppositional architectural practice depends not only on its significant ability to serve better for those people disregarded by the mainstream production of space, but in its reflection and sometimes rejection of capitalist claims to the production of space.

20 Texts
“Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat. (…) The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.” (Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals. A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals)

21 Public Interviews
“In the US there is less visible social activism, and especially in architecture schools and architectural discourse, the notion that architecture has any role to play in the political arena is dismissed. How often I have heard: ‘We're architects. We make form. It's up to sociologists, economists and politicians to figure out the rest’. I believe that this is absolutely wrong.” (Roberta Feldman)

September 2008, zus. 172 Seiten, Abbildungen s/w und farbig, englisch