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78:, they pursued other agit-prop media projects, touring throughout England and Wales to present multimedia shows at schools of architecture and beyond, and participating in events in the Netherlands and Italy. Street Farm's ideas were also promoted by appearances on two BBC television programmes. The first was aired as a part of the documentary series 135:
commended Caine's efforts in a debate in the House of Lords during a reading of the Protection of the Environment Bill in 1973. Despite such attention, however, Street Farmhouse, was relatively short-lived. A request to extend the structure's temporary planning permission on behalf of Graham Caine
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Street Farm was discontinued in around 1976, although Graham Caine and Peter Crump continued to work on sustainable architecture projects in the Bristol area in later years. The group's ideas and projects proved influential as
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the experimental house attracted considerable attention, chiming with emerging concerns about ecological sustainability and energy security.
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Paul Downton - Sowing the Seeds of Green Urbanism: 'Spring is Here and the Time is Right for Planting in the Streets'- December 14, 2015
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and sewage recycling in order to liberate the occupants from dependence upon services provided by the state or private suppliers.
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Lydia Kallipoliti, From Shit to Food: The Eco House in South London (1972-1975) in Buildings and Landscapes, (Spring 2012), Vol.19
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Mother Earth News - The Ecologic House - 1973 - An in-depth look at an ecologic house designed by British architect Grahame Caine
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Peter Crump interview by Lydia Kallipoliti in 'Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X to 197X'
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Article by Bruce Haggart and Graham Caine and photos of the 'Ecological House' in Undercurrents UC04 - Spring 1973 - pp39-46
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In 1972 Street Farm applied their political aspirations and visions to the practical project of Street Farmhouse, in
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principles, making use of autonomous housing and the kind of liberatory technology favoured by social ecologist
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The Revolutionary Urbanism of Street Farm: Eco-anarchism, Architecture and Alternative Technology in the 1970s
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Kallipoliti, Lydia (2012). "From Shit to Food: Graham Caine's Eco-House in South London, 1972–1975".
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and his partner and daughter was refused, leading to the dismantlement of their home in 1975.
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Lydia Kallipoliti, 'From Shit to Food: Graham Caine's Eco-House in South London, 1972-1975',
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became more mainstream in subsequent decades, with leading green architects, including
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was a London-based collective active in the early 1970s, with its origins in the
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Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
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Lydia Kallipoliti, 'Review: Clearings in a Concrete Jungle',
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Hansard HL Deb 27 November 1973, vol 347, cols 51-52.
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Gerald Leach, 'Living off the Sun in South London,'
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Index

Architectural Association
renewable energy
sustainability in architecture
Paul F. Downton
Howard Liddell
Situationist
anarchist
Murray Bookchin
alternative-press
Open Door
Community Programme Unit
Melvyn Bragg
Eltham
Thames Polytechnic
alternative technology
microgeneration
Gerald Leach
Lord Holford
Autonomous building
Brenda and Robert Vale
Ecological Building
Stadthaus
doi
10.5749/buildland.19.1.0087
JSTOR
10.5749/buildland.19.1.0087
Mother Earth News - The Ecologic House - 1973 - An in-depth look at an ecologic house designed by British architect Grahame Caine
Article by Bruce Haggart and Graham Caine and photos of the 'Ecological House' in Undercurrents UC04 - Spring 1973 - pp39-46
Peter Crump interview by Lydia Kallipoliti in 'Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X to 197X'
Street Farmer entry

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