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Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the 21st century. In this unprecedented study Matthew Gordon(...)
High life : condo living in the suburban century
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Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the 21st century. In this unprecedented study Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City's first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condo and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
Architectural Theory
Eric Glavin : radiant city
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Eric Glavin's work explores mid-twentieth century architecture, particularly the commercialized urban environment. His computer-generated images look closely at social housing, schools and high-rises, objects that have helped shape the socio-economic infrastructure of the industrial city. Spiralbound.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Eric Glavin : radiant city
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Eric Glavin's work explores mid-twentieth century architecture, particularly the commercialized urban environment. His computer-generated images look closely at social housing, schools and high-rises, objects that have helped shape the socio-economic infrastructure of the industrial city. Spiralbound.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firm. These four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture’s housing manifesto "Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing", the symposium "platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%" hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology and examples by(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2024
5468796 Architecture: Platform. MIDDLE
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Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firm. These four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture’s housing manifesto "Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing", the symposium "platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%" hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology and examples by practice-related offices. The work and research of the Winnipeg-based firm 5468796 Architecture (described as "one of the most talented young design firms worldwide") has focused on "missing middle" and midrise housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. With the condominium boom taking hold across North America, the number of residential units passing across architects’ desks is unprecedented. As a result of the typology’s inherent repetition and potentially banal program—as well as the private sector’s pursuit of profit, often at the expense of quality and livability—the margin in which architecture can operate is very narrow. Architects must respond to the challenges of this typology with the rigor it deserves.
Architecture Monographs
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Explore highlights of contemporary architecture built across London from 2000 to 2025 with this two-sided map by Olly Wainwright. The map features 50 projects, from museums and major redevelopments to social housing and urban gardens, alongside an introduction, building details and original photography.
London contemporary architecture Map
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Explore highlights of contemporary architecture built across London from 2000 to 2025 with this two-sided map by Olly Wainwright. The map features 50 projects, from museums and major redevelopments to social housing and urban gardens, alongside an introduction, building details and original photography.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Led by Pritzker Prize–winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses a diversely skilled staff whose analytical approach has produced highly original solutions to social challenges such as the housing shortage in Santiago's poorer neighborhoods. Instead of designing cheap housing, Elemental builds "half(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2018
Alejandro Aravena: Elemental. The architect's studio
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Led by Pritzker Prize–winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses a diversely skilled staff whose analytical approach has produced highly original solutions to social challenges such as the housing shortage in Santiago's poorer neighborhoods. Instead of designing cheap housing, Elemental builds "half houses" at the same cost and enables buyers to build the other half themselves. This combination of good design with the engagement of the buyers creates more sustainable housing areas. The studio works on both large and small scales in Chile and in the rest of the world; all projects bear the marks of their pragmatic approach. "Alejandro Aravena: Elemental" portrays the company's working methods and provides examples of its most important projects.
Architecture Monographs
Modern London map
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Explore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across London between 1930 and 1960 with this two-sided map. Featuring over fifty buildings, from social housing to churches and the Festival Hall, this guide includes original photography by Nigel Green and building details and an introduction by Robin Wilson.
Modern London map
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Explore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across London between 1930 and 1960 with this two-sided map. Featuring over fifty buildings, from social housing to churches and the Festival Hall, this guide includes original photography by Nigel Green and building details and an introduction by Robin Wilson.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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A documentation of the 2008 annual Martell Lecture given by Thom Mayne on March 19, 2008. Includes the Caltrans Headquarters in Los Angeles, Social Housing in Madrid, 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan, Diamond Ranch High School, Giant Group Company in Shanghai, San Francisco Federal Building, Phare Tower in Paris and more.
The continuity of contradiction
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A documentation of the 2008 annual Martell Lecture given by Thom Mayne on March 19, 2008. Includes the Caltrans Headquarters in Los Angeles, Social Housing in Madrid, 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan, Diamond Ranch High School, Giant Group Company in Shanghai, San Francisco Federal Building, Phare Tower in Paris and more.
Architecture Monographs
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This edition begins with a conversation with Pier Vittorio Aureli and MartinoTattara, the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm concerned with the relationship between architecture and the city. By focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects, they consult with municipalities and agencies for urban planning and architectural issues. Atypically, El Croquis(...)
El Croquis 208 : Dogma (2002-2021) familiar / unfamiliar
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This edition begins with a conversation with Pier Vittorio Aureli and MartinoTattara, the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm concerned with the relationship between architecture and the city. By focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects, they consult with municipalities and agencies for urban planning and architectural issues. Atypically, El Croquis is this time only featuring plans not yet constructed, including a model for a city of 4,000,000 Inhabitants, a proposal for 44 social housing units, and a prototype for boarding houses in London. Timely articles about urban transformation follow, including an interesting genealogy of housing for the laboring classes.
El Croquis
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From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas(...)
Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches & rats
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From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space.
Urban Theory
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Architecture with a social conscience comes in several forms in this issue. Miquel Adrià calls for a “redensification” of social housing. In a section on the ‘Corporate Drive to be in Good Shape’, the Hyundai education and research training facility gives workers breathability between sea and mountain in Gyeongju. An all-timber construction of a Norwegian bank in(...)
C3 412 : Learning within location and place
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Architecture with a social conscience comes in several forms in this issue. Miquel Adrià calls for a “redensification” of social housing. In a section on the ‘Corporate Drive to be in Good Shape’, the Hyundai education and research training facility gives workers breathability between sea and mountain in Gyeongju. An all-timber construction of a Norwegian bank in Stavanger has a positive effect on user experience and well being. In ‘Learning within Location and Place’, the patterns of Sami indigenous people shape a major Swedish school. New projects include a Möbius strip-inspired lakeside cultural complex.
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