Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power, a Global History

The Macao Docomomo Research Center, in partnership with the Rui Cunha Foundation, presents, next Monday, February 25^th, 6.30pm, at Rui Cunha Foundation, the lecture Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power, a Global History, by the Arch. Professor Miles Glendinning  (University of Edinburgh).

This lecture outlines the results of a decade-long research programme under the same title, ‘Mass Housing – Modern Architecture and State Power, a Global History’.  This programme has a double focus: the modern state, and modern architecture.  It traces the story of their interaction on a heroic scale, over the past century, in generating one of the most ubiquitous modern urban development patterns, that of social mass housing – a pattern which, despite its ubiquity, is characterised by almost limitless variety between different continents, countries and cities.  The lecture begins with a thematically-arranged overview of this vast and variegated subject, and then presents a chronological narrative of its dramatic evolution and spread across the world, touching on both the historical origins and the conservation aspects of the main episodes of global mass housing.

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The lecture will be in english