Home and Community Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme

• Main Authors: Costa Santos, Sandra (Author), Bertolino, Nadia (Author), Hicks, Stephen (Author), Lewis, Camilla (Author), May, Vanessa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2018
• Subjects: Architecture and society > Scotland > Edinburgh; Architecture, Domestic > Philosophy; Belonging (Social psychology) > Scotland > Edinburgh; Group identity > Scotland > Edinburgh
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Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena. Based on the AH...

Table of Contents:

• Home and community: Issues of public concern at the turn of the 1960s in Scotland
• Claremont Court housing scheme: Home and community design
• Spatial home-making in Claremont Court: negotiating the ideal modern home
• Exploring the construction of atmospheres in Claremont Court housing scheme
• Belonging at Claremont Court: The relational, material and temporal dimensions of 'community'
• Home and community: Lessons from Claremont Court.