Building community
Subtitle: new apartment architecture
By: Michael Webb
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780500343302
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Apartment houses
Description: 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 social housing and micro apartments to "vertical villages", megastructures and luxury high-rises.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 252) and index.