Harry Seidler : Sozialer Wohnungsbau, innovative Architektur, Wohnpark Neue Donau Wien Social housing, innovative architecture, Neue Donau Housing Estate Vienna
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Harry Seidler : Sozialer Wohnungsbau, innovative Architektur, Wohnpark Neue Donau Wien = Social housing, innovative architecture, Neue Donau Housing Estate Vienna
Prestel, c2002
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Sozialer Wohnungsbau, innovative Architektur, Wohnpark Neue Donau Wien
Social housing, innovative architecture, neue Donau Estate Vienna
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Parallel texts in German and English
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94)
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Description
This monograph places the innovative residential complex, the New Danube Housing in Vienna, in the context of Vienna's history of social housing. Starting around 1900, it tells the story of Red Vienna with buildings such as the Karl-Marx-Hof or projects influenced by the Garden City movement, among them buildings constructed by architects such as Adolf Loos, Gerrit Rietveld, Josef Hoffmann or Richard Neutra. It continues by looking at post-1945 social housing and then considers the innovative architecture of Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster. Having examined historical and contemporary developments, the book gives detailed consideration to Harry Seidler's recently completed New Danube Housing, a complex of nearly 900 apartments built on a covered expressway along the Danube.
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