Junk Food: Radical approach to sustainability in Grahame Caine’s Eco-House

  1. Miguel Luengo Angulo
Journal:
UOU Scientific Journal
  1. Sánchez Merina, Javier (dir.)
  2. Carrillo Andrada, José Antonio (coord.)

ISSN: 2697-1518

Year of publication: 2022

Issue Title: GASTROTECTURE

Issue: 4

Pages: 88-95

Type: Article

DOI: 10.14198/UOU.2022.4.09 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

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Abstract

The objective of this essay is to illustrate a possible and extreme way to understand the cycle of waste recycling and food production. This is pursued via the experience of a radical architect such as Street Farmers member Grahame Caine in his own Eco-House, assembled in London in 1972 and dismantled in 1975. Using the framework of the already existing material, and the radical architectural perspective along with an utopian and anarchic political militancy, this essay aims to answer the question of radical sustainability in a time where this concept was starting. The process and significance of this early example is still interesting, not only because of its extremeness, but also as a lesson of radical commitment. The Eco-House location within the framework and genealogy of nature-related projects such as Archigram, Superstudio or Archizoom’s is also part of this essay.

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