Fast Forward into the Past: Frederick Ackerman’s Radical Banality and the Affordable Housing Future That Could Have Been

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-08-25 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1792126

F. Biehle

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Abstract The design of affordable housing is a pursuit inextricably linked to the project of modernism. In New York City the achievements of its housing authority would become immediately recognizable for their uncompromised realization of modern architecture’s promise for the future – reductive appearance, essential interior arrangements, and a siting defined by the elimination of the preexisting urban fabric. Without the idealistic cover of modernism, the enterprise can now be recognized as anti-urban from the start. Today, the superblock sites of low-income housing continue to stand alone as stigmatized suburban anomalies. This paper looks back at the birth of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and asks what if in 1937, following the completion of both First Houses by Frederick Ackerman and Williamsburg Houses by William Lescaze, it was the radical banality of First Houses that had been embraced as the more appropriate template for the future? Could our future city have become more equitable?

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快进到过去:弗雷德里克·阿克曼的极端平庸和经济适用房的未来

经济适用房的设计是一种与现代主义项目有着千丝万缕联系的追求。在纽约市，住房当局的成就将立即得到认可，因为他们毫不妥协地实现了现代建筑对未来的承诺——简化的外观，基本的内部安排，以及通过消除先前存在的城市结构来确定的选址。没有了现代主义的理想主义外衣，企业从一开始就被认为是反城市的。今天，低收入住房的超级街区仍然是郊区被污名化的异常现象。本文回顾了纽约市住房管理局(NYCHA)的诞生，并提出了这样一个问题:如果在1937年，随着Frederick Ackerman的First Houses和William Lescaze的Williamsburg Houses的完成，First Houses的激进平庸被接受为未来更合适的模板，情况会怎样?我们未来的城市会变得更加公平吗?

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