New urban housing /
Hilary French
- 192 pages: some color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index.
Terraces and row houses -- Schieflstätte housing complex (Graz, Austria) -- Condensed housing development (South Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany) -- Nieuw Terbregge (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) -- Housing block 16X68 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) -- In-between terrace (Whatcott's Yard, London UK) -- Stuivesantplein housing (Tilburg, The Netherlands) -- Yoakum Street Town Houses (Houston, Texas, USA) -- Housing on the shore of Lake Gooi (Huizen, The Netherlands) -- Quadrangles and courtyards -- Westfield Student Village (Queen Mary College, London, UK) -- La Maquinista (Barcelona, Spain) -- High Cross Road (London, UK) -- Dwellings for young people (Leipzig, Germany) Town House (Wimbergergasse, Vienna, Austria) -- Mondrian Apartments (Sydney, Australia) -- Integrated housing (Ingolstadt, Germany) -- Harold Way Apartments (Hollywood, California, USA) -- Donnybrook Quarter (London, UK) -- City blocks and infill -- Estradenhaus (Berlin, Germany) -- Rue Pelleport apartments (Paris, France) -- Alfonso Reyes 58 Apartments (Mexico City, Mexico) -- Simmonds Hall, MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) -- Yerba Buena Lofts (San Francisco, California, USA) -- Housing in Auwiesen (Winterthur, Switzerland) -- D Residential building (Venice, Italy) -- Apartment Building Gasometer B (Vienna, Austria) -- CODAN Shinonome Canal Court, Centre Block, Block i (Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan) -- Schots 1 + 2 (Groningen, The Netherlands -- Towers and slab blocks -- 173 Perry Street / 165 Charles Street (New York, USA) -- Contemporaine (Chicago, Illinois, USA) -- Housing Tower (Theresienhöhe, Munich, Germany) -- Flower Tower (Paris, France -- Apartments (Maia, Porto, Portugal) -- Macquarie Street Apartments (Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia) -- Social dwellings (Lakua, Vitoria, Spain) -- Sejima Wing (Kitagata Apartments, Gifu Prefecture, Japan) -- Mirador Apartments (Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain).
As cities have grown, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the increasing population. Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. This book features examples of urban housing from around the world.
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century; City planning. Planned communities -- Design. Cities and towns -- Growth. Urbanization. Architecture, Modern --20th century City planning. Dwellings -- Design and construction. Housing -- Design and construction. Apartment houses -- Design and construction. Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans.