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In Housing Atlas, beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of innovative solutions. Today, architects are revisiting these designs as they seek answers to the current housing crisis.

Chronologically ordered, this is an essential survey of these key housing projects, produced by a pan-European team of leading scholars. Complete with contextual essays, the studies each include a history and analysis of the projects and the drawings are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable.



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Foreword. Forays and Crossings in the European City: The Long History of the 'Short' Century:Tools for the Design of Contemporary Housing, by Orsina Simona Pierini. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century European Housing Design, by Dick van Gameren. Liminal Spaces in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture: A Place In Which to Learn How to be a Citizen, by Carmen Espegel. The Fall and Rise of the Street in Twentieth-Century Housing, by Mark Swenarton. 87 Case Studies. Acknowledgements.

Housing Atlas: Europe – 20th Century

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      Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
      Published 27 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781848225879
      978-1848225879
      ISBN-10 1848225873
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      Art & Photography Architecture: residential History of architecture Theory of architecture

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Housing Atlas, beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of innovative solutions. Today, architects are revisiting these designs as they seek answers to the current housing crisis.

      Chronologically ordered, this is an essential survey of these key housing projects, produced by a pan-European team of leading scholars. Complete with contextual essays, the studies each include a history and analysis of the projects and the drawings are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable.



      Table of Contents

      Foreword. Forays and Crossings in the European City: The Long History of the 'Short' Century:Tools for the Design of Contemporary Housing, by Orsina Simona Pierini. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century European Housing Design, by Dick van Gameren. Liminal Spaces in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture: A Place In Which to Learn How to be a Citizen, by Carmen Espegel. The Fall and Rise of the Street in Twentieth-Century Housing, by Mark Swenarton. 87 Case Studies. Acknowledgements.

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