45houses
Home, houses and housing: all slightly different, no one house is ever the same. Here is a wide range of housing solutions from the most intimate and poetic, to large assemblages on urban sites.
on site review 45: houses and housing
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 vulnerable, to weather, fault lines, 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.
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a note about print
Now this is very old school, but from feedback we hear that ordering and getting the print copy of On Site review allows a slower, more thoughtful read. Screens allow us to scan the content which we then think we will go back to. someday. A print magazine in the hand leads us to eventually read everything, over a longer period, bit by bit, essay by essay, image by image. Overviews are just that, a general glance.
On Site review has had, historically, really amazing individual essays, photo essays, expositions, passionate explanations, new ideas being tested, buildings and landscapes we would not hear about otherwise.
So important is this content that we subsidise the cost to you of each print issue. Canada Post is what it is.
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