Housing: New Alternatives, New Systems
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Book Overview
Forms of innovative housing in an urban context are knowledgeably analyzed in this survey and introduced systematically with numerous examples from famous international architects. Architects are... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:376435870X
ISBN13:9783764358709
Release Date:May 1998
Publisher:Princeton Architectural Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:3.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.7" x 13.2"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Well, honestly, I probably wouldn't have seen this book if it wasn't for my professor and his obscure references to buildings. This is a pretty good book to make one understand and become visually aware of the way housing affects the inhabitant and the way the inhabitant(society/culture) affects the housing... also site relationships and basically the urbanization of the world. Another thing, this book is pretty good at giving examples of housing that breaks from the "normalcy" and "style-numbness"(that's my own term!) of today. I focused mainly on Riegler and Riewe's apartment building in Austria and theories on "conditioned openness" and flexibility. This, and the other examples are pretty interesting to me, maybe a good coffee table book for some. Pick it up and compare the many different systems to your current form of housing...
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