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Housing Symposium

How do we Live? London, Santiago, Shanghai-Suzhou  is  collaborative research and pedagogic programme launched by Jocelyn Froimovich and Johanna Muszbek in 2015 and looks at the current housing production spanning three continents. In collaboration with three universities, (University of Liverpool, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University) How do we Live? looks at housing types and the notion of crisis particular to each metropolitan context: Santiago (6.54 million people – 641 km2), London (8.78 million people – 1,569 km2) and Shanghai (24.15 million people – 634 km2). These cities have been randomly selected and offer a panoramic view into today’s global housing production.

With the goal of expanding our research, we have invited the following panelists to present their work on these three cities. Panels have been organized around the topics: “Crisis”, “Typology”, “Language Politics”, and “How do we live now?”.

The symposium will take place Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of November, 2021 (14:00 through 19:00 CET) in person at the European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Michiel (Strada Nuova, 4391, Campo Santi Apostoli, 30121 Venice) and online via YOUTUBE.

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Past

2019 University of Liverpool / London Campus
2019 Sao Paulo XII International Architecture Biennale “Everyday”
Sao Paulo XII International Architecture Biennale “Everyday

Housing types offer a lens into lifestyles and urbanities. They are the resource by which housing is designed. This four year collaborative research project looks closely at the housing landscape of three cities, examining from banal to exemplary residential buildings currently on the market. We look at Santiago (6.54 million people – 641 km2), London (8.78 million people – 1,569 km2) and Shanghai (24.15 million people – 634 km2). These 3 cities have been randomly selected and offer a panoramic view into today’s housing production. The question of how to design housing has accompanied the discipline throughout the last century, yet many paradigms remain.

Sao Paulo XII International Architecture Biennale “Everyday

How do we live? was exhibited at the 12th International Biennale in Sao Paulo, Everyday – Infrastructures (funded by the British Council, the University of Liverpool, Universidad Católica de Chile, and Xi’an Jiaotong University of Liverpool). The exhibit assessed and classified 108 case studies of housing built within the past 10 years in Santiago, London and Shanghai – Suzhou. The case studies are grouped into 6 typological categories: High Rise, High Rise compound, Medium Rise, Medium Rise Compound, Low Rise, and Low Rise Compound. The three cities run in rows and the categories in columns. This comparative study allows to point out current general trends, while the city specific classification highlights how particular typological aspects are distinct to each metropolitan context. “Thematic Postcards” by the model that will guide you through some itineraries on housing production. Their comparison enabled a broad perspective on the current economic, social and technical variables that drive the design of housing in different metropolitan contexts.

Sao Paulo XII International Architecture Biennale “Everyday

Team: Camillo Meneses, George Clarke, Camilo Espitia,James Gordon, Julia Hans Aguadera, Qixuan Hu, Yi Jiang, Agustina Labarca, Harry Lewis, David McGuire, Micaela Muchnik, Juan Oyarzún, Daniela Pico, Valentina Rojas, Maxime Turner, Sofia Valenzuela, Xinning Yu

2021 Time-Space-Existence 17th Venice Architecture Biennale/ European Cultural Centre

How do we Live? Santiago, London, Shanghai – Suzhou is a collaborative research and pedagogic programme launched by Jocelyn Froimovich and Johanna Muszbek in 2015 looking at current housing production spanning three continents. In collaboration with three universities, (University of Liverpool, Universidad Católica de Chile and Xi’an Jiaotong University of Liverpool) How do we Live? looks at housing types and the notion of crisis particular to each metropolitan context. Students of these three Universities have participated since 2017 in a series of workshops yielding a comparative study, a classification exercise on housing design problems and potential solutions at different scales.

The history of housing design can be understood by analysing the mutation of housing types particular to each metropolitan context. How do we live? ventures into a typological investigation, with the expectation that types can provide a framework to deal with complex urban variables. By understanding the particulars in the production of a housing type, the architect can manipulate and reorganise—invent.

The exhibition discusses today’s banal housing types, exemplary of a particular city in its making. One side of the panels looks at the market offer in these three cities, while the other proposes design interventions. . Rather than dismissing examples of the current housing offer as “bastard” architecture, it is assumed that these housing types portray specific subjects, their living and urban conditions; the politics, policies, and socio-economic factors that lead into developing a particular urban setting. We have grouped 108 case studies into 6 categories: High Rise, High Rise compound, Medium Rise, Medium Rise Compound, Low Rise, and Low Rise Compound. The three cities run in rows and the categories in columns. This comparative study allows to point out current general trends, while the city specific classification highlights how particular typological aspects are distinct to each metropolitan context. On the other side, we exhibit design exercises that intervene in existing buildings (exemplary or typical housing projects of each city) proposing a repertoire of solutions to the themes being discussed.

You can find postcards by the model that analyse themes, guiding you through the housing production on display. These themes link to the other side of the panels, which present design operations. The themes discuss specific metropolitan types in a state of crisis and confront them with a potential solution. The goal is to observe, analyse, participate and hopefully to intervene in the urban production system.

Team: Camillo Meneses, Henry Lyle