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'a subtle but vital critique of the cultural landscape of England' arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 'Beautifully judged line drawings, physical models and critical texts ...supplemented here by interviews that he has conducted with the full range of project partners. These illuminate the rich, diverse and often idiosyncratic contexts within which housing in the UK is produced and prove that good housing is not merely a socio-technical process. The resulting proposals suggest the triumph of possibility over regulatory limitation ...As the Welsh Government's laudable Innovative Housing Programme progresses, Dwelling on the Future illustrates the value of different ways of thinking and acting.' Touchstone: The journal for architecture in Wales 'In the modern world, with its growing speed and increasingly widespread clip-based thinking, it is rare to find an architect's book about architecture in which text prevails over images. ... Dwelling on the Future is also unusual in that it is based not on a text by the architect about his projects, but on a series of interviews with those who were involved in them. ...The book should be of interest to anyone who is curious about the origins of architectural ideas, projects and the process of their implementation.' Gleb A. Sobolev, Project Russia 'In this valuable book[the] projects, individually and in sum, are 'possibilities and choices' for housing in the 21st century.' Buildings & Cities 'The merits of the images [in paperback] out perform the on-screen version.' Construction Expert, Russia

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Pierre d’Avoine is an architect and teacher based in London. Pierre was born in Bombay, India in 1951. He set up Pierre d’Avoine Architects in 1979 and studioDA with Pereen d’Avoine and Nilesh Shah in 2017. Pierre and Pereen teach MArch Unit 14 at the Cass School of Architecture. Pierre has also taught at Bath School of Architecture and at the AA. Pierre has been Visiting Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Pierre practices, teaches and exhibits internationally. He published Housey Housey: A Pattern Book of Ideal Homes with Clare Melhuish in 2005.

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