Barcelona: the secret museum
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Unlike any other city travel guide, this book proposes a view of the city from the subjective perspective of a writer. It guides the reader through 80 sites monuments, squares, buildings, as well as shop windows, hidden streets, desolate neighborhoods, walls of posters and street art always with fascinating cultural commentary and universal references to the history of(...)
Barcelona: the secret museum
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Unlike any other city travel guide, this book proposes a view of the city from the subjective perspective of a writer. It guides the reader through 80 sites monuments, squares, buildings, as well as shop windows, hidden streets, desolate neighborhoods, walls of posters and street art always with fascinating cultural commentary and universal references to the history of art, cinema and literature.
Collective Housing
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On trouvera dans cet ouvrage près de cent projets de logements collectifs emblématiques, conçus par les architectes les plus célèbres. Chaque bâtiment est replacé dans son contexte historique, décrit dans ses caractéristiques techniques et conceptuelles et illustré de photographies et de dessins - plans d'appartements, d'étages, coupes et élévations. Un CD regroupant tous(...)
100 logements collectifs du XXe siècle
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On trouvera dans cet ouvrage près de cent projets de logements collectifs emblématiques, conçus par les architectes les plus célèbres. Chaque bâtiment est replacé dans son contexte historique, décrit dans ses caractéristiques techniques et conceptuelles et illustré de photographies et de dessins - plans d'appartements, d'étages, coupes et élévations. Un CD regroupant tous ces dessins fait de ce livre une ressource précieuse pour les architectes et les étudiants.
Collective Housing
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The UK’s landmark Housing Act of 1919 catalyzed the rapid development of state-owned public housing in planned council estates. Construction of these estates has largely ceased since the Thatcherist austerity policies of the ’80s. Fast-forward a few decades and the estates have met various fates; some council estates are now considered notorious, while others are arguably(...)
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March 2024
London estates: Modernist council housing 1946-1981
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The UK’s landmark Housing Act of 1919 catalyzed the rapid development of state-owned public housing in planned council estates. Construction of these estates has largely ceased since the Thatcherist austerity policies of the ’80s. Fast-forward a few decades and the estates have met various fates; some council estates are now considered notorious, while others are arguably the most desirable places to live in London. This book features 275 estates from the City and every borough. A huge range of architectural styles are represented: from prefabricated and “self-built” schemes to Modernist and Brutalist designs, including over 30 protected historic buildings. There are designs from a broad range of architects, including Denys Lasdun, Erno Goldfinger, Basil Spence and many more. Kate Macintosh’s ziggurat-inspired Dawson’s Heights (1972) shares space with Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s primary-colored tower Golden Lane Estate (1962). From the paltry to the posh, each estate possesses a fascinating history, and is emblematic of a distinct vision of urban planning.
Collective Housing
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their(...)
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December 2024
A history of collective living: Forms of shared housing
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.
Collective Housing
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"London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitor's Guide" is a practical and highly-illustrated guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. In full colour throughout, this map-based book contains comments and illustrations of more than 130 examples of London architectural projects from the last two decades. This third edition is completely up-to-date with(...)
London's contemporary architecture : a visitor's guide
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"London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitor's Guide" is a practical and highly-illustrated guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. In full colour throughout, this map-based book contains comments and illustrations of more than 130 examples of London architectural projects from the last two decades. This third edition is completely up-to-date with the best and most interesting architecture of London, from the early 1980s right up to the first years of a new millennium for the city. As the book is logically arranged by geographical area, the reader is led on a physical and intellectual tour. This book directs the architectural enthusiast, professional or amateur, to the sites most worth visiting, and provides the essential background information for architectural appreciation. This includes references to the most significant and enjoyable of London's other architecture, of all periods.
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6,000 years of housing
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Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward-looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous(...)
6,000 years of housing
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Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward-looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world, India, China, and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, however, outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World. In the Middle Ages houses served both as homes and as places of work, but gradually the domestic and business lives of the inhabitants became separate. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, profound changes in the residential development of the western world occurred: housing became segregated along socioeconomic lines and dwelling types polarized, with low-density, single-family houses at one extreme, and tall, high-density, multifamily tenements and apartments at the other. Side effects of America’s automobile-intensive suburban dream housing include inefficient land use, pollution, and urban decay. "6,000 Years of Housing" chronicles how this came about, and suggests solutions based on a rich variety of historical precedents.
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July 2003, New York
Collective Housing
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In this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of present-day cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as low-energy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from(...)
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July 2002, Basel and Barcelona
Housing / Single family housing
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In this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of present-day cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as low-energy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from architects such as Wiel Arets, Shigeru Ban, Ben van Berkel, Kees Christiaanse, Philippe Gazeau, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Morger & Degelo, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Kas Oosterhuis, illustrate the subjects discussed. "Housing" and "Single-Family Housing" were previously published separately. Now both volumes have been incorporated into a single edition.
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New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will(...)
New housing concepts
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The projects in this volume illustrate the latest tendencies in collective housing. The works of Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank O. Gehry, Claus & Kaan, MVRDV, Santiago Calatrava, Toyo Ito, and Carlos Ferrater, to name just a few of the architects included in this book, provide stimulating answers, solutions, unexpected points of view and proposals that will without doubt influence the conception of residential architecture in the century to come.
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May 2002, Barcelona
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The urban housing handbook
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The handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. These range from the London town house to apartments in Chicago and New York, taking in other European, South American, North African, and Asian examples. In each chapter, a housing type is fully explored through a traditional case study and then a more modern(...)
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February 2009, West Sussex
The urban housing handbook
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The handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. These range from the London town house to apartments in Chicago and New York, taking in other European, South American, North African, and Asian examples. In each chapter, a housing type is fully explored through a traditional case study and then a more modern example that demonstrates how it has been reinterpreted in a contemporary context.
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February 2009, West Sussex
Collective Housing
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Ce cahier de théorie propose une étude de l'architecture des logements collectifs projetés dans les concours suisses entre 2000 et 2005. Leur analyse critique, non exhaustive, souligne les tendances prédominantes - notamment organiques - et révèle, en les mettant en perspective, les préoccupations actuelles concernant l'innovation et l'adaptation spatiale à l'évolution(...)
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January 2009, Lausanne
Concevoir des logements concours en Suisse 2000-2005
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Ce cahier de théorie propose une étude de l'architecture des logements collectifs projetés dans les concours suisses entre 2000 et 2005. Leur analyse critique, non exhaustive, souligne les tendances prédominantes - notamment organiques - et révèle, en les mettant en perspective, les préoccupations actuelles concernant l'innovation et l'adaptation spatiale à l'évolution des modes de vie. Cette étude montre en particulier que les coopératives d'habitation et les investisseurs privés ne considèrent plus la question du logement qu'à l'aune exclusive des subventions ou des aides financières: la qualité des espaces domestiques est aujourd'hui devenue une question centrale de leurs réflexions.
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