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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
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Cohousing cultures: handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable housing
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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
Cohousing cultures: handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable housing
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This handbook presents a selection of the most significant integrative, autonomously organized housing projects in Europe today, from barrier-free renovations of old buildings in Berlin, to communal living for the elderly in Stockholm, to zero-emissions cooperatives in Vienna. CoHousing Cultures also includes in-depth discussions and photographs of all relevant projects.
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April 2013
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Based on the goals of "Urban Habitats," a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing. Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats(...)
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Based on the goals of "Urban Habitats," a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing. Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats(...)
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Growing urban habitats: seeking a new housing development model
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Based on the goals of "Urban Habitats," a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing. Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats proposals and contemporary work, by innovative designers such as Anderson Anderson, Koning Eizenberg, Office dA, Onion Flats, Zoka Zola, Pyatok, and more.
Growing urban habitats: seeking a new housing development model
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Based on the goals of "Urban Habitats," a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing. Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats proposals and contemporary work, by innovative designers such as Anderson Anderson, Koning Eizenberg, Office dA, Onion Flats, Zoka Zola, Pyatok, and more.
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December 2009
December 2009
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Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given in 2008 the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In respect to its architecture and city planning, Berlin of the 1920s was considered the avant-garde center of the world. These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing.
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Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given in 2008 the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In respect to its architecture and city planning, Berlin of the 1920s was considered the avant-garde center of the world. These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing.
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Berlin modernism housing estates
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Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given in 2008 the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In respect to its architecture and city planning, Berlin of the 1920s was considered the avant-garde center of the world. These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing.
Berlin modernism housing estates
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Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given in 2008 the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In respect to its architecture and city planning, Berlin of the 1920s was considered the avant-garde center of the world. These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing.
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Entre les années 1960 et 1970, la masse bâtie et les infrastructures se sont accrues de manière exponentielle dans toute l'Europe de l'Ouest. Pour répondre à cette nouvelle échelle de projet, les architectes, les ingénieurs et les urbanistes ont dû développer des systèmes de construction, de préfabrication et des techniques de planification, de même qu'ils ont forgé des(...)
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Entre les années 1960 et 1970, la masse bâtie et les infrastructures se sont accrues de manière exponentielle dans toute l'Europe de l'Ouest. Pour répondre à cette nouvelle échelle de projet, les architectes, les ingénieurs et les urbanistes ont dû développer des systèmes de construction, de préfabrication et des techniques de planification, de même qu'ils ont forgé des(...)
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Architecture de la croissance: les paradoxes de la sauvegarde
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Entre les années 1960 et 1970, la masse bâtie et les infrastructures se sont accrues de manière exponentielle dans toute l'Europe de l'Ouest. Pour répondre à cette nouvelle échelle de projet, les architectes, les ingénieurs et les urbanistes ont dû développer des systèmes de construction, de préfabrication et des techniques de planification, de même qu'ils ont forgé des utopies pour repenser l'environnement humain. En dressant un état des lieux de ces architectures en France, en Allemagne et en Suisse, ce livre revient sur le rôle des utopies, sur la production de masse et propose une analyse des enjeux et des paradoxes liés aujourd'hui à cet héritage complexe et à sa sauvegarde.
Architecture de la croissance: les paradoxes de la sauvegarde
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Entre les années 1960 et 1970, la masse bâtie et les infrastructures se sont accrues de manière exponentielle dans toute l'Europe de l'Ouest. Pour répondre à cette nouvelle échelle de projet, les architectes, les ingénieurs et les urbanistes ont dû développer des systèmes de construction, de préfabrication et des techniques de planification, de même qu'ils ont forgé des utopies pour repenser l'environnement humain. En dressant un état des lieux de ces architectures en France, en Allemagne et en Suisse, ce livre revient sur le rôle des utopies, sur la production de masse et propose une analyse des enjeux et des paradoxes liés aujourd'hui à cet héritage complexe et à sa sauvegarde.
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A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young(...)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young(...)
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A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young architectural practices are analyzed; amongst these are BIG + Topotek1, atelier Kempe Thill, Maccreanor Lavington, and babled nouvet Reynaud.
A+T Next : collective housing in progress (density, intensity, uses, location, types, detail)
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This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing It focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young architectural practices are analyzed; amongst these are BIG + Topotek1, atelier Kempe Thill, Maccreanor Lavington, and babled nouvet Reynaud.
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Superquadra
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Brasilia is best known for the grandeur of its Monumental Axis. It connects two wings with the so-called Residential Axis. This is a twelve kilometre expressway lined with large residential blocks, which are named Superquadras. All Superquadras have a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, large greenbelts and regular(...)
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Brasilia is best known for the grandeur of its Monumental Axis. It connects two wings with the so-called Residential Axis. This is a twelve kilometre expressway lined with large residential blocks, which are named Superquadras. All Superquadras have a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, large greenbelts and regular(...)
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Superquadra
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Brasilia is best known for the grandeur of its Monumental Axis. It connects two wings with the so-called Residential Axis. This is a twelve kilometre expressway lined with large residential blocks, which are named Superquadras. All Superquadras have a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, large greenbelts and regular rows of trees alongside the entire periphery of the Superquadras. For all buildings, referred to as slabs, a height limit of six floors was set. Between one Superquadra and the next there is an Entrequadra.These are reserved for recreational areas. This book documents many of these buildings and shows its specific architectural rhythm.
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Brasilia is best known for the grandeur of its Monumental Axis. It connects two wings with the so-called Residential Axis. This is a twelve kilometre expressway lined with large residential blocks, which are named Superquadras. All Superquadras have a distinct configuration, with an average of eleven residential buildings raised on pilotis, large greenbelts and regular rows of trees alongside the entire periphery of the Superquadras. For all buildings, referred to as slabs, a height limit of six floors was set. Between one Superquadra and the next there is an Entrequadra.These are reserved for recreational areas. This book documents many of these buildings and shows its specific architectural rhythm.
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Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architectural as well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses, and gaps between buildings to(...)
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Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architectural as well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses, and gaps between buildings to(...)
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Housing +
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Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architectural as well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses, and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying urban areas.
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Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architectural as well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses, and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying urban areas.
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February 2011
February 2011
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Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging Blueprint for(...)
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Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging Blueprint for(...)
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Blueprint for disaster: The unraveling of Chicago public housing
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Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging Blueprint for Disaster is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Blueprint for disaster: The unraveling of Chicago public housing
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Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging Blueprint for Disaster is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
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How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life? Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing designed for a more sustainable lifestyle.
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How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life? Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing designed for a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Creating cohousing: Building sustainable communities
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How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life? Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing designed for a more sustainable lifestyle.
Creating cohousing: Building sustainable communities
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How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life? Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration of a uniquely rewarding type of housing designed for a more sustainable lifestyle.
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is(...)
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is(...)
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Housing and public space: Coup de dés 1
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions. The Coup de Des forms part of the GAUDI project sponsored by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union.
Housing and public space: Coup de dés 1
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions. The Coup de Des forms part of the GAUDI project sponsored by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union.
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July 2010
July 2010
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