Category: Reports

1. The Death of Art The death of art has been proclaimed for at least a century, most loudly, perhaps, by Dada during the Great War in Europe; but its clarion call has been sounded with diminishing ferocity over the last few decades. Initially, under the neoliberal revolution and fiat economies of the 1980s, the … Continue reading Culture Wars: The Piper and the Archer

Culture Wars: Art, Politics and Capitalism by Simon Elmer Hardback: £45.00 Paperback: £25.00     Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2024, four years either side of lockdown, the articles collected in this volume have the benefit of straddling this watershed in Western capitalism, and of documenting, from the battlefields of the culture wars … Continue reading Culture Wars: Art, Politics and Capitalism

My old friend and sometime adversary, the architect Patrik Schumacher, once declared that the ‘unique and exclusive concern of architects’ is what he described as the first few millimetres of a building.[1] By this he meant a building’s form, its exterior and interior surfaces, the sculptured and engineered façade or envelope behind which whatever goes … Continue reading Case Studies in Estate Regeneration

Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing by Simon Elmer Hardback: £40.00 Paperback: £25.00     Look Inside Description Created in its current form in 1997 by the Labour government of Tony Blair and formalised in 2016 as a national programme by the Conservative government of David Cameron, estate regeneration is the … Continue reading Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing

On 20 May, 2015, the following text appeared on the website of Architects for Social Housing under the title ‘Manifesto’: ‘Architects for Social Housing (ASH) was founded in March 2015 in order to respond architecturally to London’s housing “crisis”. We are a Community Interest Company that organises working collectives of architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, urban designers, … Continue reading The Housing Crisis

The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £20.00     Look Inside Description First published between 2015 and 2019 on the website of Architects for Social Housing, the London-based architectural practice, the articles collected in this book analyse the financing, legislation and policy behind the UK housing crisis, as … Continue reading The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance

The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? — December 2024 by Simon Elmer Paperback: £15.00     Look Inside Description The narrative of ‘Stop the Boats’ has successfully divided debate over UK immigration into ‘racists’ (who want to control immigration) and woke ‘anti-racists’ (who welcome all and any number of refugees). But while 110,000 … Continue reading The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy?

Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History — November 2024 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £17.50     Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2019, before the watershed of lockdown and the Great Reset of the West into stakeholder capitalism it initiated, the articles collected in this book were originally published on the … Continue reading Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History

The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State — 28 September, 2022 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £30.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description With the lifting of … Continue reading The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State

Architects for Social Housing is pleased to announce the publication of our book-length report, Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition. Pdf files of the individual chapters can be downloaded from the links below. Table of Contents 1. The Campaign for St. Raphael’s Estate: Social, Economic and Policy Contexts 2. The Alternative to Demolition: … Continue reading Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition