Life in Kit Form Mass Customization in Playful Housing Experiments (Belgium, 1968–1983)

From the Modern Movement till today, industrialized housing incarnated for many architects, a solution for the future (Davies, 2005). The Post-Modern turn is a particular episode of this quest, seeking to merge two opposing concepts: the mass housing and the individual experience of the habitat. It offers a hybrid ideal: mass customization, a contradictory term leading to a “kit architectureâ€, based on a series of components that are assembled according to the user’s choice. Architecture becomes a system, and therefore, it shifts the traditional limits of expertise between inhabitants and... Mehr ...