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In 1931, in response to the Great Depression and subsequent collapse of the building industry, Martin Wagner (1885–1957), then head of planning for Berlin, formulated plans for an adaptable micro-house called “the growing house.” Working with Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Erich Mendelssohn, Hans Poelzig and Hans Scharoun, the growing house was(...)
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June 2016
Martin Wagner: the Growing House / Das wachsende Haus
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In 1931, in response to the Great Depression and subsequent collapse of the building industry, Martin Wagner (1885–1957), then head of planning for Berlin, formulated plans for an adaptable micro-house called “the growing house.” Working with Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Erich Mendelssohn, Hans Poelzig and Hans Scharoun, the growing house was designed to be modified with the changing socioeconomic circumstances of its inhabitants, providing only what was necessary and expedient. Wagner’s coruscating foreword outlining his proposals for a new social, technical and economic fabric shifting the dwelling to the center of the world is published here for the first time. Historical and contemporary black-and-white and color illustrations, drawings, plans and photographs of the prototype are accompanied by commentary from Franziska Bollerey, Ludovica Scarpa, Tom Avermaete and Tatjana Schneider, demonstrating that the growing house is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago.
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Town houses : urban houses from 1200 to the present day
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August 1998, New York
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the(...)
Ranches, rowhouses & railroad flats : American homes - how they shape our landscapes and neighbourhoods
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Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the immediate outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to society. She emphasizes the varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.
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May 1999, New York
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Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, this book demonstrates how the Dutch government organized to support large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and(...)
Housing design and society in Amsterdam : reconfiguring urban order and identity, 1900-1920
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Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, this book demonstrates how the Dutch government organized to support large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society.
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July 1998, Chicago
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6,000 years of housing
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Revised and expanded edition.
6,000 years of housing
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July 2000, New York
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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
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This wide-ranging book examines the world’s most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how(...)
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March 2006, Munich Berlin London New York
Housing in the 20th and 21st centuries / Wohen im 20. umd 21. jahrundert
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This wide-ranging book examines the world’s most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how each best represented its era’s goals: housing a new society in the 1920s and 30s; the 40s and 50s’ leap toward functionality and the future; the high-density urban projects of the 60s and 70s; and diversity and environmental awareness in the 80s and 90s. It also looks at this century’s most progressive developments: Beijing’s Looped Hybrid, a city within a city; India’s Aranya township, which provides housing for impoverished residents; and the environmentally friendly Solaire Apartments in Manhattan, among others. As today’s cities face myriad global challenges, this book provides ample food for thought for anyone concerned with socially responsible architecture.
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From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader(...)
From the puritans to the projects : Public housing and public neighbors
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From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.
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Présentation de huit opérations pilotes, dans le domaine de l'habitat individuel, développées sur différents sites en France et mettant l'accent sur la valeur d'usage et le rapport à l'autre.
Voisins - Voisines : Nouvelles formes d'habitat individuel en France
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Présentation de huit opérations pilotes, dans le domaine de l'habitat individuel, développées sur différents sites en France et mettant l'accent sur la valeur d'usage et le rapport à l'autre.
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