Housing, Micropolitics, and Pedagogies: Designing and Practicing Collectivity (ed. Paul-Antoine Lucas and Bui Quy Son, The Ruby Press 2025) calls for rethinking collective practices in architecture. The book has been produced in collaboration with Oslo School of Architecture and Design AHO.
In response to the commodification of housing and the ongoing global housing crisis, the publication addresses access to adequate housing as a fundamental human right. It looks at historical and contemporary socially-oriented housing precedents in Norway and Europe to imagine twenty-first- century not-for-profit housing alternatives in Oslo for marginalized populations and diversified family configurations. Beyond formalism, it also argues that innovative architectural solutions in a perspective of systemic societal change need to come from design processes rooted in community, cooperation, and equity. In a later section, the book expands on how radical, emancipatory pedagogies in architecture can facilitate critical thinking and action. The different visions of collectivity put forth here urge spatial practitioners, activists, and students to deeply engage with social justice by means of design and education.
With contributions by Paul-Antoine Lucas, Bui Quy Son, Céline Zimmer, Patricia Lucena Ventura, Nagy Makhlouf, Aurélie M. Nzuzi De Mol, Rosaura Noemy Hernandez Romero, and María Mazzanti.
– Housing, Micropolitics, and Pedagogies: Designing and Practicing Collectivity (eds. Paul-Antoine Lucas and Bui Quy Son, The Ruby Press 2025), excerpt from the book description from the publisher’s website.
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
