Architect David Gissen brings a nuanced critique of contemporary design in book about architecture and disability
, which has many gratuitous stairs. These are technically accessible to a legal standard, in that they have elevators, and yet “are extraordinarily alienating to a person like me,” Mr. Gissen says.
For instance, he parses the history of Vienna’s “settler movement.” In the years after the First World War, veterans, many of them “war-wounded,” joined poor emigrants in creating new housing around the fringes of the city. Their work directly inspired the architecture of social housing in “Red Vienna,” and disabled people helped lead conversation about how the city should change – including calls to remove military statues and demilitarize the landscape of the city.
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