Global Housing Projects 25 Buildings Since 1980

Name: Global Housing Projects 25 Buildings Since 1980
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ISBN: 9788496954472

ISBN-10: 8496954471

ISBN-13: 9788496954472

Edition: 2008

Authors: Josep Llu's Mateo, S., Josep Llu Mateo

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The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection of housing projects reflects the most innovative and influential built housing projects to propose new important guidelines in housing. The ETH Zurich is a renowned European architecture institute. This is the fourth book in their acclaimed…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Actar D
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 258
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Joan Chittister is a member and former prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie and currently the executive director of the Alliance for International Monasticism (AIM). She is the author of Psalm Journal, Winds of Change, and WomanStrength: Modern Church, Modern Women.

Contemporary Historicism	p. 4
Projects	p. 6
Kanchanjunga: Charles Correa - Bombay - India	p. 8
Edificio Residencial Jaragua: Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Brazil	p. 16
Nemausus: Jean Nouvel - Nimes - France	p. 24
Schilderswjik West: Alvaro Siza - The Hague - Netherlands	p. 32
Nexus: Rem Koolhaas / OMA - Fukuoka - Japan	p. 40
Strassgang: Riegler Riewe - Graz - Austria	p. 48
KNSM Eiland: Hans Kollhoff, Christian Rapp - Amsterdam - Netherlands	p. 54
Gifu Kitagata: Kazuyo Sejima - Gifu - Japan	p. 62
Wozoco: MVRDV - Amsterdam - Netherlands	p. 70
Housing Block on Borneo Island: Josep Lluis Mateo - Amsterdam - Netherlands	p. 76
Java Eiland: Diener & Diener - Amsterdam - Netherlands	p. 84
Rue Des Suisses: Herzog & de Mcuron - Paris - France	p. 92
Casa in Maia: Eduardo Souto de Moura - Maia - Portugal	p. 100
A Matter of Selection: Ramias Steinemann	p. 226
Altamira: Rafael Iglesia - Rosario - Argentina	p. 108
Jian Wai Soho: Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop - Beijing - China	p. 116
Space Block Hanoi Model: Kazuhiro Kojima - Vietnam	p. 124
Yerba Buena Lofts: Stanley Saitowitz & Natoma Architects - San Francisco - USA	p. 132
Forsterstrasse: Christian Kerez - Zurich - Switzerland	p. 132
Carabanchel: ArangurenGallegos - Madrid - Spain	p. 148
AR 58: Dellekamp Arquitectos - Mexico City - Mexico	p. 156
Cite Manifeste: Lacaton Vassal - Mulhouse - France	p. 164
VM Houses: PLOT = BIG + JDS - Copenhagen - Denmark	p. 172
Platform: Chiba Manabu Architects - Yokohama - Japan	p. 180
Apartments on the Coast: Ofis Arhitekti - Izola - Slovenia	p. 190
Nuovo Portello: Cino Zucchi Architetti - Milan - Italy	p. 198
Perspectives	p. 204
The Domestic City: Interview with Dietmar Eberle	p. 208
End of the Modernist Housing Type: What happened to the architecture of housing in France? Dominique Boudet	p. 214
Housing in Paris: Maria Vine	p. 222
The Third Generation: The Latin American scene: Miquel Adria	p. 226
Collective City Dwelling: Two emerging lifestyles in Tokyo: Jorge Almazan	p. 230
Perspective of IKI: Erwin Viray	p. 238
Found Books: Settings of domestic extravaganza in three recent discourses on architecture: Krunoslav Ivanisin	p. 244
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