Leicester School of Architecture
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Primary school design: co-creation with children
(Article)The school environment affects children’s health, emotions and learning. The good design of school buildings makes these places more pleasant and more functional. Children’s views are important and need to be more effectively ... -
Impact of migration on architecture and urban landscape: the case of Leicester
(Article)In the last five decades, Leicester has been a destination for communities of migrants coming from different parts of the world, becoming one of the most significant examples of a plural city in Europe. The current ... -
Conceptual Drawings as Explorative Tools: Tracing the Evolution of the Extended and Nuclear Family Houses in Kuwait
(Conference)This paper examines the evolution of the layout and occupancy of family houses in Kuwait, using conceptual drawings as a tool to study, describe and understand their transformations. Through the analysis of the political ... -
Urban Art as a Popular Expression in the Historic Centre of Mexico City
(Conference)The public space is one of the main features that shape the urban landscape of most cities. Trying to define it seems a complex task, due to the number of elements that characterize it, leading researchers to set up ... -
For a Sustainable Socialist Architecture
(Book chapter)This paper was delivered as part of the 'ReciprociUdad' symposium in Seville 2020, which is part of the international seminars series 'Design Diplomacy'. The crisis of housing affordability in the UK is at its most ... -
Utopian Governance and the 'Smart' City
(Conference)The critique centred on the controlling of bodies through emerging forms of digital surveillance can be extended to the wider information networks of the ‘smart’ city. Definitions of ‘smart’ cities are reminiscent of ... -
Digitally stitching stereoscopic vision
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Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession
(Book)With the increasing specialisation in the process of contemporary building production, the value and the role of architects have come into question in construction discourse. From literature about architects losing leadership ... -
Bottle House: Utilising Appreciative Inquiry to develop a user Acceptance model
(Article)This paper develops a novel user-acceptance model for circular solutions to housing design. The model has been systematically developed from a case study of an upcycled plastic bottle building in a low-income community ... -
For a Socialist Architecture
(Other)Over the summer of 2019, as part of ASH’s research fellowship with 221A, we took up a month’s residency in Vancouver, Canada. Over four lectures held on Friday afternoons between 19 July and 9 August, we presented our ... -
The absent spaces in the European city, as a stitching system of the urban infrastructure and the collective in the contemporary city
(Article)Hans Ulrich Orbrist interviews the architect Rem Koolhaas about the Berlin Wall. He answers: “The Berlin Wall as architecture was for me the first spectacular revelation in architecture of how absence can be stronger than ... -
Peripheral corridors: the post-metropolitan landscape of Leganes (Madrid) and Melville (Johannesburg)
(Conference)Thesis describing main arguments: This paper consists of a general history of the concept of periphery and aims to introduce the different definitions of periphery in architectural and other theories. It begins by setting ... -
Borders of Precincts: Unpacking the Politics of White Neighbourhood Identities in the Post‐Apartheid Black City (Johannesburg)
(Book chapter)The relationship between a middle income white precinct in Melville and the post-apartheid predominantly black city of Johannesburg are still seen as separate entities. This poses a threat to the democratic production of ... -
The legacy of marginal and unbuilt spaces, as a critical tool in the contemporary European City
(Article)“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?” ― J.M. Coetzee In that sentence of the South African writer J.M.Coetzee, Paul the male protagonist ... -
Shantytowns, Housing and State Order: The Plan de Emergencia in 1950s Argentina
(Article)In September 1955 in Argentina a coup d’état backed by a heterogeneous coalition of military and civil actors overthrew the elected government of Juan Domingo Perón and set out to profoundly alter most of his policies. One ... -
The Plan de Emergencia (1956): Housing Shortage in Buenos Aires Then and Now
(Article)This article examines the first urban plan in Argentina to address informal settlements. It will be argued that this plan served as a template for later proposals and encouraged a particular approach towards the informal ... -
Gardens in the sky: Emotional experiences in the communal spaces at height in the Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore
(Article)A boom in high-rise construction and vertical living has resulted in an increase in privately and publicly accessible communal spaces at height within tall buildings. Asia is leading the way in these developments, with one ... -
Speedrunning and the digitized body
(Conference)Diplorasis is a mirrored corridor that replicates a funhouse-mirrored room. The participant who enters this ‘funhouse’ space is not prepared for what is in store. The participant’s likeness is secretly reproduced while he ... -
A review of retrofit interventions for residential buildings in hot humid climates
Buildings consume 40% of resources around the world, low energy building is fast becoming a major component of sustainable development. However, limiting the concept of low energy buildings to new builds will only undermine ...
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