Building community : new apartment architecture / Michael Webb.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2021Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First paperback edition 2021Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500296394 (paperback)Other title: New apartment architectureSubject(s): Apartment houses | Apartment houses -- Designs and plans | Architecture and PlanningLOC classification: NA7860 .W433 2021Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 252) and index (pages 254-256).
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.