New Open Access Books for May 2018
From polar ghosts and country houses to how data can be used for good and digital museums, we’ve got an exciting host of new publications this month.
From polar ghosts and country houses to how data can be used for good and digital museums, we’ve got an exciting host of new publications this month.
Join Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin for the reception style launch of Self-build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions with an overview of the book, case study presentations and networking.
Date: Friday 11 May 2018
Time: 17:30 – 19:30
Location: G12 The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB
Published by UCL Press, Self-Build Homes is available in a variety of formats, including as a free Open Access PDF, and in print.
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households.
This volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households.
Confirmed speakers
Michaela Benson (Goldsmiths)
Iqbal Hamiduddin (UCL)
Ted Stevens (NaCSBA)
Julia Heslop (Newcastle University)
Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Please RSVP and for further enquiries contact Chantelle – clewi011@gold.ac.uk
To access the book – https://bit.ly/2v1S1LP
Hear Sophia Psarra discuss her new book The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination.
Join UCL Press and the FRINGE Centre for the launch of the two-volume Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, which marks the first publication in the FRINGE Series.
To celebrate the launch of Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?, we invite colleagues, friends and contributors to join us at the Institute of Advanced Studies on 7 March 2018 at 6pm.