Building community : new apartment architecture / Michael Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Michael, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartment houses.

Apartment houses--Designs and plans.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm

Other Title:

New apartment architecture

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2017.

Summary:

This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments 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 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to "vertical villages", megastructures and luxury high-rises.

Contents:

Introduction : Evolution of a typology

Urban villages : Carabanchel housing, Madrid / Morphosis

Nishinoyama house, Kyoto / Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Baroque court apartments, Ljubljana / OFIS Arhitekti

25 Verde, Turin / Luciano Pia

Boréal, Nantes / Tetrarc

Broadway housing, Santa Monica / Kevin Daly Architects

Lorcan O'Herlihy: reaching out

Building blocks : CityLife, Milan / Zaha Hadid Architects

De Kameleon, Amsterdam / NL Architects

City Hyde Park, Chicago / Studio Gang

Studio 11024, Los Angeles / LOH Architects

8 house, Copenhagen / Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

The interlace, Singapore / OMA, Ole Scheeren

Bjarke Ingels: exploiting irregularity

Promoting sociability : Tietgen Student Hall, Copenhagen / Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

The Commons, Melbourne / Breathe Architecture

Star apartments, Los Angeles / Michael Maltzan Architecture

Torr Kaelan, San Diego / Rob Wellington Quigley

Hérold, Paris / Jakob + MacFarlane

Songpa micro housing, Seoul / Single Speed Design

Michael Maltzan: housing for all

Spirit of place : Sugar Hill, New York / Adjaye Associates

The Wave, Vejle / Henning Larsen Architects

8 Octavia, San Francisco / Stanley Saitowitz, Natoma Architects

The ALeph, Buenos Aires / Foster + Partners

HL 23, New York / Neil M. Denari Architects

JOH 3, Berlin / J. Mayer H.

Stanley Saitowitz: rigorous strategies

Reaching skyward : 8 Spruce Street, New York / Gehry Partners

Absolute Towers, Mississauga / MAD Architects

Marco Polo Towers, Hamburg / Behnisch Architekten

V_Itaim, São Paulo / Studio MK27

White Walls, Nicosia / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Sky Habitat, Singapore / Safdie Architects

Édouard François: Green Towers

Looking ahead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 252) and index.

ISBN:

9780500343302

0500343306

OCLC:

951949743