Main entry:

Gameren, Dick van, author.

Title & Author:

Dutch dwellings : the architecture of housing / by Dick van Gameren.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2023]
©2023

Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333).
1. The house: doors, stairs, and streets -- 2. The ensemble: palaces and projects -- 3. The plan: patterns and models -- 4. The people: cooperation and customisation -- 5. Space and material: seven elements of housing design -- I. The street and the square --II. The courtyard and the patio --III. The park and the garden --IV. The hall --V. The fireplace --VI. The wall --VII. The roof -- 6. A catalogue of projects -- Apartments -- Terraced housing -- Individual houses -- Studies and master plans -- Eleven facades -- 7. Appendix.

Summary:

Dick van Gameren, a partner with the renowned Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, has engaged in housing design for the past twenty-five years through his work as an architect as well as in his research and teaching at TU Delft's Global Housing Study Center. In this book, he presents around forty of his own projects in this field, through concise texts and photographs with explanatory captions as well as plans and drawings. The projects are grouped to illustrate seven specific aspects of housing design: Streets and Squares, Courtyards and Patios, Gardens, Halls, the Fireplace, Walls, and Roofs. Together, they constitute a multifaceted catalog of housing typologies. In four supplementary essays, van Gameren explores evolutions in residential architecture in the Netherlands. He positions his own concepts in the context of these developments and expands on what he considers the key factors of good housing design. He places particular focus on affordable housing, a pressing issue in so many countries and metropolitan areas around the world. Dutch Dwellings is an inspiring read for anyone involved in housing design today. -- Publisher

ISBN:

9783038603047 (hardback)
303860304X (hardback)

Subject:

Gameren, Dick van.
Architecture, Domestic Netherlands.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture Netherlands History 21st century.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture Pays-Bas Histoire 21e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture, Modern
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Netherlands

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317937
Call No.: 317937
Copy: 1
Status: Available