Isabelle Doucet Bücher

Candide 10 presents the first in a two-part collection of results from a conference titled Architecture as Dispute, offering fascinating perspectives from controversial production histories.

Exploring the intricate relationship between urban politics and architectural design, this book delves into Brussels' dynamic history and its impact on societal needs. By examining critical actions in the city's architectural culture post-1968, it highlights the application of pragmatist-relational philosophies. The work aims to demonstrate how these philosophies can enhance architectural theory, offering new possibilities for a critical agenda in the field. Through this lens, the book presents a thoughtful analysis of the interplay between architecture and urban life.

Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects' own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, Activism at Home is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline's tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus--whether at home or elsewhere.

Here comes trouble: the progression of current architectural debates