Building Community New Apartment Architecture (Paperback) /anglais - Couverture souple

Webb, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500296391 ISBN 13 : 9780500296394

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Building Community, 9780500296394

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored more than twenty books on architecture and design, most recently Architects' Houses, and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, while contributing essays to many more. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life, before moving to the US. He was awarded an honorary membership in the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and within. The book also includes interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Édouard François and Bjarke Ingels. As our cities grow more crowded, it is critical that we produce large-scale buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers and apartment-dwellers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500296391
• ISBN 13: 9780500296394
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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