Throughout the 20th century, there were periods when there was urgent demand for housing to accommodate the rapidly increasing population (or rebuilt following wars). Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high-density living are revisiting these seminal designs as they seek to develop their own solutions to our current housing crisis. Chronologically ordered, this book provides a unique survey of over 80 seminal housing projects from across Europe which were constructed during the 20th century. Together with concise contextual history and analysis, each housing study includes carefully redrawn context plan, plans and sections (some also include elevations) which are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable. Beginning with Parker & Unwin's Hampstead Garden Suburb (1907), case studies include Garnier's La Cite des Etats-Unis; Fisker's Hornbaekhus; Oud's De Kiefhoek; Taut and Wagner's Hufeisensiedlung; Ehn's Karl Marx Hof; the Werkbundsiedlung Neubuhl and Siedlung Siemensstadt; Lubetkin's Highpoint; Aalto's Sunila factory housing; Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation; Jacobsen's Allehusene; Moretti's Complesso in Corso Italia; Markelius's - Vallingby; Tavora's Ramalde; Rietveld's Vlashof and Klaverhof; Atelier 5's Siedlung Halen; Utzon's Kingo Houses; Stirling & Gowan's Avenham; Ungers' Neue Stadt; Brown's Alexandra Road and Medina; Rossi's Monte Amiatagio; Bofill's Walden-7; Fiorentino's Nuovo Corviale; Siza Vieira's Bouca; de Portzamparc and La Quinta da Malagueira; the IBA Rauchstrasse; Valle's Giudecca; Nouvel's Nemausus; de las Casas' Alcobendas; OMA's Chasse Park; West 8's De Whale; through to MVRDV's Silodam and Herzog and de Meuron's Rue des Suisses.
Orsina Simona Pierini is full professor of architecture and urban design at the department of architecture and urban studies, the Polytecnico di Milano, Italy. Carmen Espegel is an award-winning architect and professor at the School of Architecture, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Dick van Gameren is professor of housing design and dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Mark Swenarton is emeritus professor of architecture at Liverpool University, UK.
Foreword. Forays and Crossings in the European City: The Long History of the 'Short' Century:Tools for the Design of Contemporary Housing, by Orsina Simona Pierini. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century European Housing Design, by Dick van Gameren. Liminal Spaces in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture: A Place In Which to Learn How to be a Citizen, by Carmen Espegel. The Fall and Rise of the Street in Twentieth-Century Housing, by Mark Swenarton. 87 Case Studies. Acknowledgements.
