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ASH has been set up to respond architecturally to London’s housing crisis.

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  • Donate to ASH
    • Trust for London: ASH application for funding, June 2019
  • Manifesto
    • Under Capitalism: Second Manifesto of Architects for Social Housing
  • Reports
    • Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021
    • COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State
    • For a Socialist Architecture: Lectures at 221A, Vancouver
    • Inequality Capital: A Power Walk by Architects for Social Housing
    • The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Report by Architects for Social Housing
    • Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration
    • The Truth about Grenfell Tower: A Report by Architects for Social Housing
    • The Good Practice Guide to Resisting Estate Demolition: ASH Response to the GLA
    • The Ethics of Estate Regeneration: ASH response to the Royal Institute of British Architects
    • West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates: New Homes and Improvements without Demolition. ASH Feasibility Study Report
    • Housing & Planning Bill: ASH submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee
  • Presentations
    • Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to residents, St. Patrick’s Church
    • St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to the Bartlett School of Architecture (housing design research workshop)
    • For a Socialist Architecture 4. Part 2. Political Practices
    • For a Socialist Architecture 4. Part 1. Political Principles
    • For a Socialist Architecture 3. Part 2: Economic Practices
    • For a Socialist Architecture 3. Part 1: Economic Principles
    • For a Socialist Architecture 2. Part 2. Environmental Practices
    • For a Socialist Architecture 2. Part 1. Environmental Principles
    • For a Socialist Architecture 1. Part 1: Social Principles
    • Leaving the Garden: Brexit and the Housing Crisis. ASH presentation at Antarsya debate on EU and the Radical Left
    • For a Socialist Architecture. Part 1: The Facts in the Case of Patrik Schumacher. ASH presentation to the Department of Architecture, Cambridge University
    • For a Socialist Architecture. Part 2: The Principles of Architectural Practice. ASH presentation to the Department of Architecture, Cambridge University
    • The Space of Community in Post-war Council Estates: ASH presentation at the Design Museum
    • Housing is Not a Human Right: Housing Campaigns Before the Law. ASH Presentation to the Birkbeck School of Law
    • Policy Proposals on Estate Regeneration: ASH Presentation to the Tulse Hill branch of the Labour Party
    • Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration. ASH Presentation to the Department of Architecture, Braunschweig University of Technology
    • Housing Crisis or Capitalist Crisis? ASH Presentation at the Platypus Society European Conference 2018
    • Social Housing Scrutiny Project: ASH Presentation to Haringey Council Housing and Regeneration Scrutiny Panel
    • Battle of Ideas: Reform or Revolution in Housing? ASH presentation at the Barbican Centre
    • Sustainable Estates: ASH presentation at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Part 2)
    • 11 Myths about London’s Housing Crisis: ASH presentation at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Part 1)
    • 2 or 3 Solutions to London’s Housing Crisis: ASH Presentation to the Architectural League of New York (Part 2)
    • 15 Truths About London’s Housing Crisis: ASH Presentation to the Architectural League of New York (Part 1)
    • Future Estates: ASH presentation at the Royal Academy
    • Urgent Imagination: Conference at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
  • Exhibitions and Films
    • Bibliography for a Socialist Architecture: Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, Vancouver
    • The Right to the City: ASH Residency at the 221A Gallery, Vancouver
    • Sponsorship and Censorship: Why ASH is withdrawing from the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
    • Power Walk at the Serpentine Gallery: ASH Press Release
    • The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Film for Everyone
    • ASH Films: News Reports, Interviews, Presentations, Counter Propaganda, Documentaries, 2015-2019
    • Mapping London’s Estate Regeneration Programme
    • ASH Retrospective at the ICA
    • In formation: ASH Residency at the ICA
  • Co-operative Development
    • ASH Co-Housing: Design Option for the Brixton Housing Co-operative
    • ASH House: Design Options for the Drive Housing Co-operative
    • What is Community-led Housing? Proposal for a Co-operative Housing Development
  • Case Studies in Estate Regeneration
    • The Future of St. Raphael’s Estate: Design Options by Karakusevic Carson Architects and their role in the consultation of residents by Brent Council
    • The Campaign for St. Raphael’s Estate: Fighting a Social and Environmental Disaster
    • The Fight for Montreal Square: Questions and Strategies for Housing Campaigners
    • The Regeneration of Ham Close Estate. Part 2: For a Socialist Architecture
    • The Regeneration of Ham Close Estate. Part 1: What the Green Party has learned from Labour
    • Public Subsidies for Private Profit: The Colville Estate Regeneration
    • The Carpenters Estate: A Fresh Start or Business as Usual at Newham Council?
    • Questions without Answers: Reginald House and Old Tidemill Garden
    • The Duties of an Architect: Regeneration and Gentrification in New Mildmay
    • Class War on Woodberry Down: A National Strategy
    • An Exemplary Regeneration: King’s Crescent Estate
    • Sheffield Tent City and the Social Cleansing of Park Hill Estate
    • The Intellectual Bloodstain: Academia and Social Cleansing on the Ferrier Estate
    • Reflections on the Outcome of the Public Inquiry into the Aylesbury Estate Compulsory Purchase Order
    • Regenerating Hackney’s Estates: The Dirty Tricks of a Dirty Council
    • From Ferrier Estate to Kidbrooke Village: Decoding a ‘Place in the Making’
    • What are the Options? Fred Wigg & John Walsh Towers
    • Guinness Trust: Occupation of the Loughborough Park Estate
  • Biopolitics
    • Behind the Mask, the Conspiracy!
    • Cui Bono? The COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy’
    • Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis
    • Our Default State: Compulsory Vaccination for COVID-19 and Human Rights Law
    • Bowling for Pfizer: Who’s Behind the BioNTech Vaccine?
    • Five Stories Under Lockdown
    • Bread and Circuses: Who’s Behind the Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19?
    • The Betrayal of the Clerks: UK Intellectuals in the Service of the Biosecurity State
    • Bonfire of the Freedoms: The Unlawful Exercise of Powers conferred by the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
    • When the House Burns: Giorgio Agamben on the Coronavirus Crisis
    • The Infection of Science by Politics: A Nobel Laureate and Biophysicist on the Coronavirus Crisis
    • The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 2. Normalising Fear)
    • The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 1. Programmes and Regulations)
    • The Science and Law of Refusing to Wear Masks: Texts and Arguments in Support of Civil Disobedience
    • Lockdown: Collateral Damage in the War on COVID-19
    • The State of Emergency as Paradigm of Government: Coronavirus Legislation, Implementation and Enforcement
    • Manufacturing Consensus: The Registering of COVID-19 Deaths in the UK
    • Giorgio Agamben and the Biopolitics of COVID-19
    • Good Morning, Coronazombies! Diary of a Bio-Political Crisis Event
    • Coronavirus, Government Lockdown and its effects on UK Housing
    • Coronazombies! Infection and Denial in the United Kingdom
    • Language is a Virus: SARs-CoV-2 and the Science of Political Control
    • Sociology of a Disease: Age, Class and Mortality in the Coronavirus Pandemic
    • COVID-19 and Capitalism
  • Counter Propaganda
    • Rioting, Legislation and Estate Demolition: A Chronology of Social Cleansing in London, 1999-2019
    • Capitalising on Crisis: Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal for Capitalism
    • The Smell of an Anarchist: The Aesthetics of Social Cleansing
    • The Business of Homelessness: My Container UK Ltd
    • Policy SD10: Social and Racial Cleansing in the Draft New London Plan
    • Homes for Londoners? Sadiq Khan’s Record on Housing
    • A Home for All? The Art Exhibition as Political Propaganda
    • Supply and Demand in Centre Point Residences
    • London’s Most Influential: Citigroup and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
    • The Architecture of Death
    • Calling All Architects: New Approaches to Old Housing
    • Southwark Sleeper: A New Housing Initiative for London’s Homeless (Or Not)
    • The Propaganda of Estate Regeneration: The Lincoln Estate, Poplar Harca and the British Broadcasting Corporation
    • Manufacturing Consent: GLA Capital Funding Guide: Section 8. Resident Ballots for Estate Regeneration Projects
    • The Tower: Rewriting Grenfell. ASH response to Andrew O’Hagan
    • London’s Empty Housing: Causes, Existing Policy, Future Solutions and their Enforcement
    • iMayor: The Ideology of GLA Housing Policy and the New Policy we need on Estate Regeneration
    • Scheming Schemes: A Street View of Gentrification
    • Maintain, Refurbish, Invest: Siemensstadt Housing Estate, Berlin
    • J’ACCUSE! Selected Letters to the Architects’ Journal, June 2015-July 2017
    • 10 Myths about London’s Housing Crisis
    • Vauxhall Hustings 2017
    • Social Housing: Demolitions, Privatisations & Social Cleansing
    • Estate Demolition and the Business of Homelessness
    • FAQs
    • The Working Class Strikes Back
    • The Housing Question, 1872-2016
    • ASH meeting with the RIBA
    • Financial Compensation for Human Rights: The Aylesbury Estate
    • Time Out: London’s Best Buildings
    • Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Inequality, Housing, Renting, Evictions, Homelessness and House Prices
    • Bleak House: Open letter from Architects for Social Housing to Lambeth Legal Services
    • Resistance Begins at Home: The Housing and Planning Act
    • The Doomsday Book: Mapping London’s Housing Crisis
    • Blitzkrieg! Sink Estates and Starter Homes
    • Let All The Children Boogie: David Bowie and the Housing and Planning Bill from Mars
    • Housing Bill Diary
    • Where Will We Live?
    • The End of Social Housing
    • The London Clearances
    • Parliament & Buckingham Estates: A Petition
  • Pedagogy
    • This is the Colour of my Dreams: Human displacement and boundaries in our environment. Paintings by Vanessa Gould
    • Countless Cities: Photographs by Alessia Gammarota
    • The Sacred Heart of Architecture: Lessons from the Paris Commune
    • Whatever Happened to the Middle Class? Bad Faith and the Culture Industry
    • Le rebâtiment de Notre Dame
    • Whatever Happened to the Working Class? The British Ideology
    • Invisible Britain: The Art of Catharsis
    • What Is To Be Done? Changing Metaphors of Change
    • Dresden Diary: Architecture, History and Politics
    • Narkomfin: Regenerations, Appropriations, Betrayals
    • Armed Love: Capitalism, Anarchism and the Russian Revolution
    • Radiant City: The Marseilles Housing Unit
    • The Way of the Dead: Land, Class and Architecture
    • In Defence of Our Land: Historical Similarities Between the Enclosure of Common Land from the Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries and the Privatisation of Public Land in the Twenty-First; or, Why the Class War Never Changes, Only its Historical Form
    • Two or Three Things to Remember on this Day of Remembrance
    • The Peasants’ Revolt: Lessons from History
    • Avant-Garde Architecture: The Seagram Building
    • A New David: The Journey to Beauty in Architecture
    • Land Values: A Short History
    • Memorials of Forgetting: Art and Architecture in Berlin
    • In Defence of Our Homes: The Art of Resistance
    • Modern Times: A Walk in Charlie Chaplin’s Footsteps
  • Resistance by Design
    • NORTHWOLD ESTATE
      • Saving Northwold Estate: The Design Alternatives to Demolition
      • The Consultation Game: TM Architects on Northwold Estate
      • The Guinness Partnership: Letter from a resident of Northwold Estate
      • The Future of Northwold Estate
    • CENTRAL HILL ESTATE
      • Central Hill: The Alternative to Demolition
      • The Castle: Freedom of Information and Commercial Confidentiality at Lambeth Co-operative Council
      • Embodied Carbon Estimation for Central Hill Estate: Report by Model Environments
      • Deliverability of the ASH proposal on Central Hill: ASH response to Lambeth Labour Council
      • Criteria for Estate Demolition: ASH response to Lambeth Labour Council
      • ASH Presentation to Central Hill Estate Residents Engagement Panel
      • Central Hill: Design Proposals
      • Facts and Figures on Central Hill Estate
      • Community Consultation: The Future of Central Hill estate
      • Good News on Central Hill
      • In Defence of Central Hill
      • Central Hill Community
      • ASH Meeting on Central Hill
      • Workshop at Central Hill
      • Central Hill Estate Listing Application
    • WEST KENSINGTON & GIBBS GREEN ESTATES
      • Saving West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates: An Open Letter to Labour Activists
      • ASH design proposals for West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates
      • Resistance by Design: West Kensington & Gibbs Green Estates
      • Home: Pin it Down!
    • KNIGHT’S WALK
      • Knight’s Walk: The Good Practice Guide to Gentrification
      • Knight’s Walk Redevelopment: Recommendation to Cabinet
      • Knight’s Walk Public Consultation: Alternative Proposals
      • Knight’s Walk: Resident Consultation
      • Knights Walk: Progress Report
      • Knight’s Walk: Background to Demolition
    • CRESSINGHAM GARDENS ESTATE
      • Cressingham Gardens: Design Workshop
      • Cressingham Gardens: Pilot workshop on open spaces
      • Architectural Workshops on Cressingham Gardens Estate
      • Principles of Social Housing on Cressingham Gardens Estate
      • Cressingham Gardens: Background and ASH Progress
      • Cressingham Gardens Estate: Background to Demolition
  • Open Garden Estates Website
    • Excalibur: Open Garden Estates 2017
    • Achilles Street: Open Garden Estates 2017
    • Macintosh Court: Open Garden Estates 2016
    • Open Garden Estates 2016
    • Central Hill: Open Garden Estates 2015
    • Cressingham Gardens: Open Garden Estates 2015
    • Knight’s Walk: Open Garden Estates 2015
    • Open Garden Estates 2015
    • Open Garden Estates Flyer
    • Open Garden Estates
  • Parliamentary Politics
    • What Does The General Election Mean?
    • After Labour
    • The Parliamentary Road to Capitalism
    • Tactical Voting: A Socialist Option
    • The Brexit Election: A Working-class Perspective
    • The Labour Party Manifesto on Housing 2019
    • ASH Housing Manifesto 2019
    • Running Man: The Johnson-Corbyn ‘Debate’
    • ‘Middle-class Socialism’: A Warning from History
    • A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Emma Dent Coad
    • Another General Election . . .
    • Choose Labour?
    • A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Florence Eshalomi
    • Representing What? The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary
    • The Persecution, Incarceration, Torture and Extra-Territorial Extradition of Julian Assange: Template for a letter to your Member of Parliament
    • Brexit Countdown
    • Rebuilding Britain: Housing at the Labour Party Conference 2018
    • Oy Vey! No Latkes for Labour
    • Figs from Thistles: Labour’s Grenfell Opportunism
    • London’s Local Elections 2018: The Consequences of Voting
    • Our Urban Millions Must Wrest Control from Hostile, Inhumane Labour
    • The Social Realism of the Labour Party: Jeremy Corbyn and the Socialism of Fools
    • This Charming Man: Jeremy Corbyn and The Smiths
    • Dispossession: The Great Labour Party Swindle
    • New Old Labour: An Introduction for Housing Campaigners
    • The Labour Party Conference 2017: Housing Policy and Estate Regeneration
    • Why I Never Write About the Tories
    • Jeremy Corbyn and the Haringey Development Vehicle
    • Oh, Jeremy Corbyn! The People’s Assembly
    • Clusterfuck! Labour’s Shameless Council Estate Rip-off
    • Secure Homes for All? The Labour Party Manifesto on Housing
    • Vote Labour? The Aims and Values of Estate Demolition
    • A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Helen Hayes
    • Electoral Defeatism
    • Stand Up To Labour: The Denials of Momentum
    • Brexit Diary
    • No Platform For Labour Lies
  • Protests
    • Stirling Prize Protest 2019: The Social Cleansing of Social Housing
    • Extinction Rebellion: Socialist Revolution
    • Entente Cordiale: An anal probe into London’s housing crisis
    • Campaign for Beti: Equality Duties of the Guinness Partnership and the Human Rights of their Tenants
    • Squat Belgravia: The Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians
    • The Anarchist Present: Eaton Square
    • Harrods and the Social Cleansing of London
    • Resist Guinness Evictions: Campaign for Beti
    • Stirling Prize Protest 2016: From the Heygate to the Aylesbury
    • ASH Lounge at MIPIM UK
    • Savills Protest
    • Stirling Prize Protest 2015
    • AJ 120 Awards: Protest
    • What’s the Point? Protest and the Housing Crisis
  • Photo Essays
    • Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures
    • Memorial for Grenfell
    • Labour Blimps
    • Kidbrooke Village: Our Vision for Your Future
    • The Working Class Strikes Back
    • Trafalgar Place: The Production of Space
    • Marzahn: The Place Myths of Social Housing
    • O. J. Simpson Prize 2015
    • O. J. Simpson Prize 2016
  • Poems
    • The Battle of Hyde Park
    • The Nuremberg Defence
    • Open for Business
    • Holy Island
    • Bring the Summer Home (The Poll Tax Song)
    • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Assange
    • Sympathy for the Tory
    • The Christ of Journalism
    • Greece (an Odyssey)
    • ASH Christmas Carol
    • The Red Lady of Paviland
    • Thatcherwocky
    • Labour Party Conference No. 2
    • Fake News
    • 21 Council Army (Poem for Jeremy Corbyn)
    • Explaining a Few Things
    • Dear Labour Council
    • Red Front / Pink Boots
    • The Seven Stages of Regeneration
    • Definitely London Town
    • Sweets Way
    • The Aylesbury Wall
    • When We Marched For Homes
    • The Nation’s Favourite Poem
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