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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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Revised and expanded edition.
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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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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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Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both complete and under construction. It explains how the co-housing process is managed in terms of architecture, urban planning, financing, legality, and taxation, and delves into(...)
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September 2023
Cohousing in Barcelona: Designing, building and living for cooperative models
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Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both complete and under construction. It explains how the co-housing process is managed in terms of architecture, urban planning, financing, legality, and taxation, and delves into the experience of living in a community fueled by a cooperative spirit. The content of the book presents designs for cooperative housing, accompanied by a critical vision of the model’s implications in terms of the transfer of use or co-living. Finished and inhabited projects are compiled along with ongoing projects, to offer a general view of this way of living in Barcelona. The case studies are explained by members of cooperatives, experts and designers who look at aspects of design, sustainability, construction and urban life. This book is a tool for understanding the design and construction of co-housing and the community life that goes on there.
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Last 2007 La Casa Encendida organised the Sueño de Casa Propia (Dream of a Home of One’s Own) exhibition, curated by María Inés Rodríguez, in which a series of reflections on housing by artists, designers and architects served as the basis for an analysis of how different contexts produce different strategies for resolving the issue of access to housing. Parallel to the(...)
Housing and domestic space in the XXI century
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Last 2007 La Casa Encendida organised the Sueño de Casa Propia (Dream of a Home of One’s Own) exhibition, curated by María Inés Rodríguez, in which a series of reflections on housing by artists, designers and architects served as the basis for an analysis of how different contexts produce different strategies for resolving the issue of access to housing. Parallel to the exhibition, a seminar entitled Housing and Domestic Space in the 21st Century was organised. Coordinated by Juan Herreros, an architect and lecturer at the Madrid University School of Architecture, the seminar brought together a group of intellectuals from both Spain and abroad for discussions on this theme. The ultimate aim of the seminar was to raise awareness about architecture’s potential role in the current and evident transformation of lifestyles. With the collaboration of: Raúl Cárdenas, María Auxiliadora Gálvez, Vicente Guallart, Hans-Walter Müller, Philippe Rahm, Alejandro Aravena, Robert Kronenburg, Colin Davies and Enric Ruiz-Geli.
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January 2009
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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.
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Cet ouvrage ne rassemble pas les habitats de plus grande densité dans le monde mais il sélectionne ceux qui proposent de nouvelles solutions liées à un contexte spécifique et qui analysent en profondeur la façon de résoudre, pour chaque cas, la complexité de ce type d'architecture.
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November 2008, Paris
Haute densité : habitat contemporain
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Cet ouvrage ne rassemble pas les habitats de plus grande densité dans le monde mais il sélectionne ceux qui proposent de nouvelles solutions liées à un contexte spécifique et qui analysent en profondeur la façon de résoudre, pour chaque cas, la complexité de ce type d'architecture.
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