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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°3
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DESCRIPTION:fala Atelier\nFALA ATELIER\nCheshire cats & Trojan horses\n\n1
 65 homes willfully bending expectations and regulations. Within a context 
 of dire need for affordable housing on the one hand\, and a growing homoge
 nization of domestic spaces on the other\, innovative strategies suggest a
  reconsideration of what could be good housing.\n\nfala is an architecture
  practice founded in 2013. In its first decade\, the atelier's central end
 eavour has been a constellation of housing projects and transformations bu
 ilt in portugal.\n\n—\n\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series "Aff
 ordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\n\nFor the Fall Lecture Series\, 
 the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathered six housing projects t
 hat address affordable housing in an exemplary way. Each guest will presen
 t one project and explain in detail what it means to produce good and affo
 rdable housing from commission to inhabitation. The aim of these lectures 
 is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing\, but rather to sho
 w how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The l
 ecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author 
 of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the ho
 use as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can
  challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.\n\nIn the 
 last decade\, housing is back in the architects’ agenda. Yet\, renewed i
 nterest in housing corresponds to a historical moment in which\, more than
  ever\, housing is considered a commodity to be bought\, sold and rented r
 ather than a space to inhabit. While in the hey-day of the welfare state\,
  legions of architects – often employed by the state – had the chance 
 to develop large-scale housing complexes\, and to experiment with unpreced
 ented possibilities in terms of typology and technology\, today affordable
  housing is reduced to few interventions in a desolate sea of commodified 
 urbanization. Yet\, in spite of these hostile conditions\, some recent hou
 sing projects have managed to reformulate what affordable housing can be i
 n the 21th century. Although these projects do not match (yet) the scale a
 nd quantity of their 20th century predecessors\, they are innovative espe
 cially in terms of how people can live together more collectively and by a
 llowing new types of households
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