Negli ultimi anni la storia dell’housing si è rivelata un utile terreno di scambio tra studiosi con diverse competenze e un interessante banco di prova per sperimentare metodi e pratiche della ricerca storica. Il corso assume le storie dell’abitare come punto di osservazione per discutere alcune tendenze più ampie che interessano oggi gli studi sull’architettura e l’ambiente costruito.
Questa edizione del corso, in particolare, si concentra sui legami tra storia dell’housing e storia urbana. Tale legame è stato tradizionalmente forte e ha svolto un ruolo centrale in testi fondativi come Georgian London di John Summerson (1945) o Victorian Suburb di H.J. Dyos (1961). Tuttavia, alcune tendenze recenti nella ricerca storica propongono interpretazioni interessanti e in parte innovative dei molteplici modi in cui la storia dell’housing e delle pratiche abitative può servire da punto di ingresso per leggere processi più ampi di cambiamento urbano.
In recent years, housing history has proved to be a fruitful field of exchange between scholars with different competences and an exceptional testing ground to experiment with methodologies, practices and sources of historical research. The course takes housing histories as an observation point in order to discuss some of the broader tendencies that affect studies on architecture and the built environment.
This edition of the course, in particular, focuses on the links between housing history and urban history. Such a link has been traditionally strong and played a central role in classic urban history works such as John Summerson’s Georgian London (1945) or H.J. Dyos’s Victorian Suburb (1961). However, recent trends in historical research propose interesting and partly innovative interpretations of the manifold ways in which the history of housing and dwelling practices can serve as a shortcut for the understanding of broader processes of urban change.
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Il corso si baserà sull'analisi collettiva di una serie di studi che hanno contribuito a dar forma al dibattito sul tema proposto. Ad ogni studente verrà chiesto di leggere un libro o una serie di articoli e di discuterne criticamente con il resto del corso attraverso una presentazione orale e un testo scritto. Un sito web gestito dal gruppo servirà da riferimento per questa discussione collettiva e al tempo come strumento per la presentazione pubblica di alcuni risultati.
Il corso si articolerà idealmente in una lezione introduttiva (2 ore), quattro sessioni seminariali (4 ore) e una lezione conclusiva con il coinvolgimento di un ospite esterno. Quest’organizzazione potrebbe cambiare a seconda del numero di studenti partecipanti, dei testi o degli argomenti da trattare, ecc.
Il corso sarà tenuto in inglese, anche se i lavori di ricerca discussi durante il seminario potranno essere scritti in una pluralità di altre lingue (es. italiano, francese, tedesco, cinese, ecc.). Si prenderanno in considerazione in questo senso proposte provenienti dagli studenti.
Alcuni possibili testi di riferimento includono:
John Summerson, Georgian London, London, Pleiades Books, 1945; new edition, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2003;
H.J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb: a Study of the Growth of Camberwell, Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1966;
Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, London, Routledge, 1980;
Hidenobu Jinnai, Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995;
Nancy Stieber, Housing, Design and Dociety in Amsterdam. Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998;
Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories. City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999;
Richard Rodger, The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001;
Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, New York, Pantheon, 2003;
Anahi Ballent, Las huellas de la política. Vivienda, ciudad y peronismo en Buenos Aires, 1943-1955, Buenos Aires, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2005;
Andrew S. Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street, Santa Fe, Center for American Places, 2006;
John Foot, Micro-history of a House: Memory and Place in a Milanese Neighbourhood, 1890-2000, “Urban History”, 34, 3 (2007), pp. 431-53;
Thomas Clerc, Lionel Engrand, Le Front de Seine 1959-2013, Paris, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2013;
Audrey Petty, High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing, San Francisco, Voice of Witness, 2013;
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner (eds.), Affordable Housing in New York, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016;
Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime 1860-2011, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017;
David Kroll, Peter Guillery (eds), Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future, London, RIBA, 2017;
Mark Swenarton, Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing, London, Lund Humphries, 2017
The course will be based upon the collective analysis of a number of published research works that have contributed to shape scholarly debate on the subject. Each student will be asked to read a book or a series of articles and critically discuss it with the rest of the class through both an oral presentation and a written essay. A collectively edited website will serve as a reference for this collective discussion and as a tool for the public presentation of its outcomes.
The course will ideally be articulated into an introductory lecture (2 hours), four seminar sessions (4 hours), and a concluding lecture involving an external guest. This organization might change depending on the number of participant students, texts/topics to be treated, etc.
The course will be taught in English, although the research works discussed during the seminar might be written in a plurality of other languages (such as, but not limited to, Italian, French, German, Chinese, etc.). Proposals coming from the students will be welcome in this respect.
Potential references include:
John Summerson, Georgian London, London, Pleiades Books, 1945; new edition, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2003;
H.J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb: a Study of the Growth of Camberwell, Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1966;
Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, London, Routledge, 1980;
Hidenobu Jinnai, Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995;
Nancy Stieber, Housing, Design and Dociety in Amsterdam. Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998;
Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories. City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999;
Richard Rodger, The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001;
Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, New York, Pantheon, 2003;
Anahi Ballent, Las huellas de la política. Vivienda, ciudad y peronismo en Buenos Aires, 1943-1955, Buenos Aires, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2005;
Andrew S. Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street, Santa Fe, Center for American Places, 2006;
John Foot, Micro-history of a House: Memory and Place in a Milanese Neighbourhood, 1890-2000, “Urban History”, 34, 3 (2007), pp. 431-53;
Thomas Clerc, Lionel Engrand, Le Front de Seine 1959-2013, Paris, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2013;
Audrey Petty, High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing, San Francisco, Voice of Witness, 2013;
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Matthew Gordon Lasner (eds.), Affordable Housing in New York, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016;
Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime 1860-2011, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017;
David Kroll, Peter Guillery (eds), Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future, London, RIBA, 2017;
Mark Swenarton, Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing, London, Lund Humphries, 2017
Modalità mista
Mixed mode
Presentazione orale - Presentazione report scritto
Oral presentation - Written report presentation
P.D.2-2 - Marzo
P.D.2-2 - March
April 29, 10-13
Course presentation
May 13, 9,30-13
Round table 1: text presentations and discussion
May 20, 9,30-13
Round table 2: text presentations and discussion
May 27, 9,30-13
Round table 3: text presentations and discussion
April 29, 10-13
Course presentation
May 13, 9,30-13
Round table 1: text presentations and discussion
May 20, 9,30-13
Round table 2: text presentations and discussion
May 27, 9,30-13
Round table 3: text presentations and discussion
