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This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane...

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Main Authors: Webb, Michael, 1937
Published: Thames & Hudson,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Apartment houses
Apartment houses > Designs and plans
Summary: This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The heart of the book features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from soc
Carrier Form: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780500343302 (hardback) :
0500343306 (hardback)
Index Number: NA7860
CLC: TU241.2
Call Number: TU241.2/W367
Contents: Introduction : Evolution of a typology -- Urban villages : Carabanchel housing, Madrid / Morphosis -- Nishinoyama house, Kyoto / Kazuyo Sejima & Associates -- Baroque court apartments, Ljubljana / OFIS Arhitekti -- 25 Verde, Turin / Luciano Pia -- Boréal, Nantes / Tetrarc -- Broadway housing, Santa Monica / Kevin Daly Architects -- Lorcan O'Herlihy: reaching out -- Building blocks : CityLife, Milan / Zaha Hadid Architects -- De Kameleon, Amsterdam / NL Architects -- City Hyde Park, Chicago / Studio Gang -- Studio 11024, Los Angeles / LOH Architects -- 8 house, Copenhagen / Bjarke Ingels Gr

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