
Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture
Community Service Through Architecture
Bryan Bell(Editor)
Princeton Architectural Press
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
239 pages
978-1-56898-391-2 (ISBN)
Description
With rare exceptions, we tend to think of architects as working in the domain of the rich and the commercial. Not so Bryan Bell or the other contributors to this volume who have often forgone high commissions to devote themselves to developing a real architecture for poor and underserved communities in the US and abroad. Much of the housing developed for the poor has been built using cookie-cutter models, making the units sterile in appearance, unappealing in design, and often lacking in critical elements that allow for functionality. In Good Deeds, Good Design, architects and designers who have been working among the poor share their experiences, challenges, frustrations and successes. From migrant housing in Georgia to low-cost housing in India, to middle class housing in America, Good Deeds, Good Design looks at the tools necessary for change: community involvement, government cooperation, and flexibility in design.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
150
150 s/w Abbildungen, 150 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
150ill.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56898-391-2 (9781568983912)
DOI
10.1007/b10868
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bryan Bell taught at Rural Studio and is founder of Design Corps, a nonprofit agency providing architecture to those traditionally underserved by the profession. He spent twelve years "in the trenches" working to make architectural services available to a greater part of the general public. After degrees from Yale and Princeton, he started working with non-profit agencies that specialized in serving the very-low income. "I felt that I had left architecture. Now I just define architecture differently."