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The Collective Urban Villa as An Answer to The Housing Crisis

The exhibition Dogma: Urban Villa makes the case for more cooperative and collective housing

How can we live communally and make housing in an urban environment more affordable and attractive? The renowned architectural firm Dogma sees a solution in a time-honoured building type: the urban villa. The Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) has invited the architects to reveal their research in an exhibition. Discover it from 4 October in DE SINGEL.

Opening lecture by Dogma
03.10.2024 at 8pm

Exhibition
from 04.10.2024 to 09.02.2025

Flanders Architecture Institute at De Singel, Antwerp (BE)

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Pier Vittorio Aureli left and Martino Tattara right ©Marc Baert

"The individual way of living in Flanders is no longer tenable, especially when you take rising energy costs into account and the environmental impact. The collective use of urban villas could make it easier to obtain quality housing for everyone."

- Martino Tattara, co-founder Dogma

Urban Villa

This is Dogma’s second exhibition with the Flanders Architecture Institute for DE SINGEL. On this occasion, they present their work alongside historical and international references in the main exhibition space. The common thread is the urban villa typology, which scarcely finds a place in Belgium’s architectural history. With the help of forty case studies, Dogma highlight the qualities of this building type and reveal how it can solve the housing issues in contemporary cities.

Martino Tattara (co-founder, Dogma): “We firmly believe that a reinterpretation of the urban villa can lead to a more social and affordable housing policy.”

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Faux Corbu, a prototype for cooperative housing © Dogma

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