This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living space is a base for our increasingly complex and varied societies. This new survey into multi-family housing focuses on the responses proposed by architects who are dealing with the dynamic and diverse demands of contemporary society. Featuring works by Lacaton-Vassal, BIG, + JDS, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Ryue Nishizawa, FOA, SHoP, and many emerging new architects, this volume is not a simple catalog, but rather a studied collection of inventive projects.
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A seminal work that is enhanced with the inclusion of floor plans and colored photos of exteriors
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As metropolitan areas become increasingly population dense, the need for multi-family housing also increases -- often dramatically. Knowledgeably co-edited by the team of Tomoko Sakamoto, Irene Hwang, and Albert Ferre, "Total Housing: Alternatives To Urban Sprawl" is a 396-page compendium providing detailed, insightful, illustrative, descriptive commentaries showcasing multi-family architectural structures by some of the finest established architectural firms, as well as an impressive number of new architects coming up with project solutions to the problems of urban sprawl. A seminal work that is enhanced with the inclusion of floor plans and colored photos of exteriors, "Total Housing: Alternatives To Urban Sprawl" is an impressive and strongly recommended contribution to professional and academic library architectural studies collections.
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thanks to people we can have such a great book! very useful) a lot help in understanding architecture, living in such buildings.
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