Building community : new apartment architecture : with 348 illustrations
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Building community : new apartment architecture : with 348 illustrations
Thames & Hudson, 2021, c2017
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Originally published: 2017
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, 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 39 recent or ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to urban villages, megastructures and innovative high-rises. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and within. The book also includes interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O'Herlihy, Edouard Francois and Bjarke Ingels.
As our cities grow more crowded, it is critical that we produce creative buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers and apartment-dwellers.
With 348 illustrations in colour
Table of Contents
Introduction: Evolution of a Typology
1. Urban Villages
2. Lorcan O'Herlihy: Reaching Out
3. Building Blocks
4. Bjarke Ingels: Exploiting Irregularity
5. Promoting Sociability
6. Michael Maltzan: Housing for All
7. Spirit of Place
8. Stanley Saitowitz: Rigorous Strategies
9. Reaching Skyward
10. Edouard Francois: Green Towers
11. Looking Ahead
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