The concepts ‘standard’ and ‘ideal’ are inextricably associated in housing design. In the last 100 years, efforts to create standardized and optimized affordable dwellings produced an endlessly varied series of designs for the ideal home, some built, some not. The recent economic and demographic changes have given renewed relevance to the call to reformalute housing ideals. Starting form a historic perspective and showing recent examples from his own work, Dick van Gameren will discuss new ideas and solutions for housing in urban contexts.

Dick van Gameren is professor of Architecture and Dwelling since 2006. Currently, he is also chair of the Architecture Department at TU Delft and part of the group integrating Berlage at TU Delf.

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