In this book, architecture firms, community design centers, design-build programs, and service-based organizations offer their plans for building for the rest of us. Twenty-nine essays and case studies offer a clear, direct, and inspiring message in numerous illustrated examples…
The New City Books series explores the intersection of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm. The book documents recent work in housing by the architectural firms of Koning Eizenberg, Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc…
The publication investigates the opportunities for upgrading the spatial structure of apartments created during the post-war building boom between 1960 and 1970. The authors analyze typical existing layouts in the context of social developments which, in recent decades, have led…
As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century. This book reexamines urban A…
The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed. The focus is on exemplary and transferrable pr…
Across Europe a new generation of practices are transforming social housing. Responding to continued high demand, changing clients and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes are delivered at scale, achieving high standards of design and a new focus o…
