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Architecture (and the other 99%): Open‐Source Architecture and Design Commons

Author(s) -

Parvin Alastair

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

architectural design

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1554-2769

pISSN - 0003-8504

DOI - 10.1002/ad.1680

Subject(s) - architecture , commons , open source , studio , population , design studio , architectural engineering , engineering , sociology , computer science , law , telecommunications , political science , visual arts , art , operating system , demography , software

Under the current commercial practice model, can architecture ever really be cutting‐edge or egalitarian in its aims? If only 2 per cent of the world's buildings are designed by architects for 1 per cent of the richest clients, is it possible to design for a wide cross section of the population let alone be truly subversive? Alastair Parvin of architecture studio 00 (zero zero) and co‐founder of the Wiki‐House puts the case forward for a whole new model of open‐source practice.

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