Adrià, Miquel, author.

Housing : strategies for urban redensification / Miquel Adrià.

First edition.

New York : Arquine, 2023.

191 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 17 cm

Architect Miquel Adrià (1956) proposes various strategies for urban redensification, in which he analyzes how to build quality, more efficient, dignified and flexible economic houses. With an introduction by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Prize, the book comprises nine case studies that allowed a paradigm shift in the conception of collective housing. "The urgency of mass social housing has literally become a matter of life and death."--Page 8.
"This reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. Housing proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past century all of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017. These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban housing is inextricably bound with the inception and progression of modernism."-- Amazon.

9786078880232 paperback
6078880233 paperback

Housing.
Urban renewal.
Architectural design.
Rénovation urbaine.
Design architectural.
urban renewal.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Strategies for urban redensification

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