Row
Subtitle: Trajectories Through The Shotgun House
Contributors: David Brown (Editor); William Williams (Editor)
Publisher: Rice Univ School of Architecture
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781885232083
Subjects: Reference; Architecture
Description: "The copious presence of the shotgun house in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards, historically African-American neighborhoods directly adjacent to downtown Houston, has provided a basis for work that re-evaluates this house form. In a series of paintings in the 1980s, Houston artist John Biggers identified the shotgun house as a community enabler. Project Row Houses demonstrates this capability through its community revitalization effort, which consists of artist's installations, child after-school care and its Young Mothers Residential Program, all in a cluster of twenty-two row houses. The 15th round of installations in the eight Artist's Houses at Project Row Houses offered a unique opportunity for further study of the shotgun house. The architects and designers invited to develop installations could explore its ability to enable community as well as other characteristics and qualities by working directly within a shotgun house variation. [This book] documents the installations and the presentations from a symposium that preceded their opening. The collected work, which builds on the work of Biggers and Project Row Houses, assesses the historical and cultural significance of the shotgun house, and its material, organizational, and spatial properties, while revealing that the shotgun house has continued relevance as an informant of contemporary architecture and urbanism"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 12
authors: Rick Lowe; title: Introduction
pagenum: 16
authors: David Brown; title: House Art: Merging Public and Private
pagenum: 20
authors: bell hooks; title: The Shotgun Cottage in Houston
pagenum: 32
authors: Stephen Fox; title: Above, Beneath, Beyond, and Between
pagenum: 44
authors: LaVerne Wells-Bowie; title: Installations and African-American Design Practices
pagenum: 56; title: Awakening: Quilt Top Patterns in the Third Dimension
pagenum: 78
authors: Walter Hood; title: One Week, Eight Hours
pagenum: 90
authors: Felecia Davis; title: Between Memory and Amnesia
pagenum: 102
authors: Craig Barton; title: Passing Time
pagenum: 114
authors: AR+D unigroup; title: and Other Latent Uses
pagenum: 126
authors: David Brown; title: Intimate Landscapes (of the Shotgun House)
pagenum: 138
authors: SUMO; title: Bordering
pagenum: 150
authors: Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez; title: Making Do: Beyond Getting By
pagenum: 162
authors: WPa (Williams+Pizzini architects); title: Eight Memories
pagenum: 174
authors: Mabel Wilson; title: Scattered Houses: A Competition for Small Houses
pagenum: 184
authors: Nathaniel Belcher; title: Remembering John Biggers
pagenum: 194
authors: Alvia Wardlaw; title: Afterword: Area Denial Technologies
pagenum: 198
authors: Christopher Hight; title: Contributors
pagenum: 204; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 210; title: Credits
pagenum: 211