Versions Of Collectivity In Housing Architecture: From The Modern To The Post-Human

Today, collectivity is projected as a key notion in order to cope with an increasing scarcity in an era of multileveled crisis. In such context collective modes of life are suggested as a means towards economical adequacy, environmental sustainability, social solidarity and political request, a tendency that has explicitly affected architecture. In this paper, the ways that architecture of housing realized collective living, as well as the correspondences between meanings of collectivity and forms of housing, are examined. Through a critical overview of emblematic architectural examples from the Modern to contemporary times, an investigation of the social and political function of collective housing, mainly in our era, is aimed.