Category: Reports

Virtue and Terror: Resisting the UK Biosecurity State, our third collection of articles on the coronavirus crisis, is available as a 246-page pdf file or ebook for a £10 donation to ASH through PayPal. As all our articles are, they are also available for free on this website. Preface This is the third collection of … Continue reading Virtue and Terror: Resisting the UK Biosecurity State

Architects for Social Housing is pleased to announce the publication of our report on the design alternative to the demolition of St. Raphael’s estate in Neasden, in the London Borough of Brent. The result of two years’ work with residents, the report includes ASH’s proposals for the refurbishment of the estate’s 760 existing homes, the improvement … Continue reading The Alternative to Demolition: Design Proposals for St. Raphael’s Estate

COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State, our collected articles on the coronavirus crisis, is available as a 284-page pdf file for £10 donation to ASH through PayPal: PREFACE These articles, published on the Architects for Social Housing website between March and August 2020, do not constitute a book. Instead, they are a compilation of the … Continue reading COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State

For a Socialist Architecture can be downloaded here. PREFACE Over the summer of 2019, as part of ASH’s research fellowship with 221A, we took up a month’s residency in Vancouver, Canada. Over four lectures held on Friday afternoons between 19 July and 9 August, we presented our thoughts about the necessity and possibility of a … Continue reading For a Socialist Architecture: Lectures at 221A, Vancouver

The text for this walk is available to download as a booklet titled Inequality Capital. Preface London is the European capital of inequality. 165,000 people, 1 in every 52 Londoners, are officially homeless; yet last year 93 billionaires were registered as resident in the capital, the highest of any city in the world, and more … Continue reading Inequality Capital: A Power Walk by Architects for Social Housing

A PDF file of this report can be downloaded here: The Costs of Estate Regeneration. A summary of its finding can be viewed in the following film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXzM56YIVW0 Contents 1. Gains and Losses Estate Regeneration Schemes: Dwellings Demolished and Redeveloped Leaseholder Compensation, Shared Ownership and Market Sale:           Ferrier estate and … Continue reading The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Report by Architects for Social Housing

Architects for Social Housing (ASH) is pleased to announce the publication of a book-length report based on our work on the alternative to the demolition of the Central Hill estate in Crystal Palace. Titled Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration, the report includes not only our designs for the estate’s refurbishment and increase … Continue reading Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration