Key urban housing of the twentieth century : plans, sections, and elevations / Hilary French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Hilary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Designs and plans.

Architecture, Modern.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color), maps ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows or Macintosh.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "digital files of all the drawings featured in the book."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

New urban forms

European modernism

Post-war modernism

Alternatives

Post-Modernism

Contemporary interpretations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.

Includes scaled plans, sectional views, diagrams, elevations.

Projects: Peabody Buildings, Rue Franklin Apartments, Cheap Cottages Exhibition, Van Beuingenstraat Housing, Gradins Vavin/Amiraux, Hotel des Artists, Spangen Quarter, El Pueblo Ribera Courtyard Houses, Efficiency Apartments, Britz Hufeisensiedlung, Karl Marx-Hof, Weissenhofsiedlung apartment Building, Weissenhofsidelung RowHousing, Narkomfin, Siemensstadt Housing, Lawn Road (now Isokin) Flats, Vienna Werkbund Houses, Bergpolder Building, 25 and 42 Avenue de Versailles, Highpoint Flats, Kensal House, Casa Rustici, Bubeshko Apartments, Unite d'Habitation, Pedregulho Housing, Churchill Gardens Estate, Golden Lane Estate, Casa de la Marina, Workers' Housing, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Price Tower, Keeling House, Harumi Apartments, Beacon Street Apartments, Hansaviertel Apartments, Hansaviertel Tower, Bellevue Bay Flats and Houses, Halen Housing, Tapiola Housing, Marina City, Lafayette Park Apartments, Peabody Terrace, BluesPoint Tower, Bakkedraget Housing, The Ryde, Habitat 67, Twin Parks Northwest Site 4, Balfron and Trellick Towers, Robin Hood Gardens, Nagakin Capsule Tower, University Centre Housing, Olympic Tower, Walden 7, Emmanuel Benaki Street Apartments, Housing on Calle Doña María Coronel, Gallartese Housing, Quinta de Malagueira Housing, Corner Housing at Kochstrasse, Housing on Lützowplatz, St Mark's Road Housing, Rue des Hautes Formes, Noisy II Housing, Atlantis Condominium, Byker Wall, Housing for the Elderly, Nemausus, Pence Place, IJ-Plein Housing, Spiral House, Nexus World Housing, Rue de Meaux Housing, Horizon Apartments, Kavel 25, Carl-Spitzweg-Gasse Housing, Schlesischestrasse Housing, Silodam, Sejima Wing, Kitagata Housing, Courtyard Houses, Rue des Suisses Housing, Schots 1 + 2, Yerba Buena Lofts, The Whale, Liverpool Street Housing, Mirador Apartments, Consort Road Housing, Carabanchel 16 Housing.

ISBN:

9780393732467

0393732460

OCLC:

227016385