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on site review 45: houses and housing

L S Lowry, Hillside in Wales, Abertillery, 1962. Oil on canvas, H 76.2 x W 101.6 cm. Tate T0059

For On Site review 45 we thought we might look at houses and housing, that basic human right to shelter which comes in an infinite variety of shapes, sizes and intentions. They can be figures in the landscape, urban fabric, collective assemblies, individual declarations.

They can be dreamt, built out of rubble, made of glass. They can be secure, or vulnerabale, to weather, faultlines, war or fashion. They can be loved, treasured, hated or demolished in a second.

They can be seen as commodities, as markets, or as the most elemental of protections. Hand made or developer driven. Careful or careless of their inhabitants.

Find an entry point in all this, and send ideas or proposals for this issue any time up to May 31 2024, final submissions will be due August 31 2024, give or take a couple of days – just aim for the end of August.

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on site review 46: architecture and travel

Francis Towne, *Castel Madama, above the River Aniene, near Tivoli,* 1781. Pen and grey ink and watercolour, on laid paper with a fragmentary watermark; signed, dated and inscribed verso: Castello Madamo / No. 2. / April 22. 1781 / Light coming in from the right hand. / Francis Towne. At auction at Sotheby’s 2021

Why do we travel? Is it to see new things? to rack up a gazillion photographs? to touch something elemental about unfamiliarity? to leave the quotidian behind for a while?

What, historically, did travel bring to architecture?

What do studios abroad, obligatory offerings for any self-respecting architecture school, bring to the study of architecture?

Does travel always imply distance?

Is travel a challenge or a pleasure? Is a challenge a pleasure? Is pleasure a challenge?

Is there anything essentially imperialistic about travel?

Is emigration travel or displacement? What does travel displace?

Peter Cook once titled a lecture: ‘I travel to find what I already know’. Is this the promise, or the danger, of travel?

Find an entry point in this topic, and send ideas or proposals for this issue any time up to November 1 2024, final submissions will be due January 15 2025, give or take a couple of days – just aim for the middle of January.

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