| Description |
269 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 33 cm |
| Contents |
I. Housing : new alternatives -- 1. Dynamic devices -- 2. Commercial, universal, trivial -- 3. Interior landscape : "inhabited units" and the residential cell -- 3.1. Diversity rather than repetition -- 3.2. Emptied-out rather than partitioned-off -- 3.3. Flexibility rather than specialization -- 3.4. Industrialization rather than handicraft -- 3.5. New challenges : solutions in emergency situations - projects for the renovation of obsolete structures -- II. Housing : new urban ideas -- 1. Housing-city-territory -- 2. Open systems : potential encoders -- Structural networks-net-dynamic guidelines -- A.1. Sequences : series, cadences, counterpoints -- A.2. Webs : nets, rails, circuits -- Mixed developments-growth-complex formations -- B.1. Outbreaks : profiles, excrescences, inflexions -- B.2. Maculae : grafts, parasitisms, commensalisms -- Open spaces-landscape-manipulated voids -- C.1. Enclaves : fields, hollows, mattings -- C.2. Terrains : contours, trenches, grounds -- Consolidated fabrics-dilation-incisions/excisions -- Incicisions/excisions : joints, breaches, abuttals -- The project and the site : reactive mechanisms -- Open systems -- Basic units/complex units -- Hybrid entities -- Incisions |
| Summary |
Forms of innovative housing in an urban context are knowledgeably analyzed in this survey and introduced systematically with numerous examples from famous international architects. Architects are searching for adequate new systems for urban housing construction given the background environment of the changing cities. The vital interest pertaining to these innovative fields of activity led the editor to critically examine realized buildings as well as planned projects. In the first section of the publication, the latest developments and research are competently placed into contexts and explained to the reader. In the second section, the housing and projects that can be considered paradigmatic are presented according to contextual aspects. The illustrative material (sketches, plans, model pictures, etc.) is for the most part published here for the first time. Works by the following architects are discussed in this volume: Adriaan Geuze & West 8, Ben van Berkel, MVRDV, Willem Jan Neutelings, Eduard Bru/OAS, Actar Arquitectura, allas/Diacomidis/Papandreou/Haritos/Nikomidos, Soriano-Palacios, Riegler & Riewe, Kees Christiaanse, Josep Llu's Mateo, Hans Kollhoff, Wiel Arets, Philippe Gazeau, Francis Soler, Steven Holl, Kas Oosterhuis, Josep LlinC s, Marzelle/Manescau/Steeg, Jean Nouvel, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The editor and principal author is an architect, director of the architectural magazine "Quaderns" and teaches at various universities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Technological innovations -- Europe.
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Architecture, Domestic -- Europe.
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Modular construction -- Europe.
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Prefabricated apartment houses -- Europe.
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| LC no. |
98014466 98004156 98004156 |
| ISBN |
081765870X (Boston) (acid-free paper) |
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376435870X (Basel) (acid-free paper) |
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9783764358709 |
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