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Luxury for all : milestones in European stepped terrace housing / Gerhard Steixner, Maria Welzig (editors).

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Steixner, Gerhard, editor.
Welzig, Maria, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Terrace houses--Europe--History.
Terrace houses.
Terrace houses--Europe--Case studies.
Europe.
Genre:
Case studies.
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (464 p.)
Edition:
with noumer. colored illus.
Place of Publication:
Basel : Birkhäuser, [2020]
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
Das Terrassenhaus entspricht als Bautyp modernen Wohnbau-Anforderungen: es ist ökonomisch und bietet bei geringem Bodenverbrauch hohen Wohnkomfort mit Terrasse und Garten. Populär geworden mit den sozialen Bewegungen in den 1960er Jahren, geriet es mit der fortschreitenden Erosion der Idee von Gesellschaft wieder in Vergessenheit und wurde gar als Bausünde abqualifiziert. Doch die anhaltende Bewohnerzufriedenheit und die ökologischen Vorteile eines begrünten Hauses machen das Terrassenhaus mehr denn je attraktiv. Die im Buch untersuchten Bauten sind heute nicht nur architektonische Ikonen; man kann auch von ihnen immer noch lernen, was der Wohnungsbau heute braucht. Ein Vertreter dieses Bautyps war Harry Glück, dessen Plädoyer für die grüne Stadt hier in Teilen abgedruckt wird.
The stepped terraced house is a type of building that meets modern housing requirements: it is economical and offers ample living space with the comfort of terrace and garden. Rising to popularity with the advent of new social movements it was forgotten with the progressive erosion of the new ideas of society and relegated them to obscurity or even to their disqualification as eyesores. Yet the enduring satisfaction of residents and ecological advantages of green houses make terraced housing as attractive as ever. The buildings studied in the book are not only architectural icons today; even today, one can still learn from them about what residential buildings need. One proponent of this building style was Harry Glück; part of his text pleading the case for a green city is printed here.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
The Potential of the Green City
The Invention of Stepped Terrace Housing
“Sundecks for All” — La Grande Motte
Milestones in European Stepped Terrace Housing
Olympic Village, Munich
Alt-Erlaa Residential Park, Vienna
St. Peter Housing Estate, Graz
Koseze Housing Estate, Ljubljana
Heinz-Nittel-Hof, Vienna
Hadikgasse Residential Complex, Vienna
Alexandra Road Estate, London
Autobahnüberbauung Schlangenbader Strasse, Berlin
Inzersdorfer Strasse Residential Complex, Vienna
Wohnen Morgen Wien
Brunswick Centre, London
La Serra, Ivrea
The Return of Stepped Terrace Housing
Author Biographies
Index of Names
List of Illustrations
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
3-0356-1887-9
OCLC:
1202624483

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