A Concrete for the "Other Half"?

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The sulphur concrete block came out of various experiments performed by the Minimum Cost Housing Group at McGill Universiy in Montreal in 1970s. The internation research group explored self-building using materials that would present an alternative to the functionalistic logic of development aid programmes tied to the Western construction industry. The "Other Half - a term that was coined to describe decolonized countries and urban population living in informal housing at the time - was the focus of their experiments with alternative building solutions. Beginning with an understanding of how and why the block was made, its actual usage and its afterlife and going on to examine its archival status and symbolic relevance within architectural histography, shaped by a paradigm shift in our overall view of Habitat", the book shows how the block became both the vessel and the vector for the projections and questions explored by the trandisciplinary group of the Bauhaus Lab 2020.

architecture design bricks materiality sulphur habitat vernacular bauhaus

Mya Berger, David Davalos, Maryia Rusak, Martha Schiwinling, Ines Glowania, Leonie Thireaux, Leticia M. Brown

1. 5. 2021

Spector Books

Nemecko

9783959054898

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