Housing + Single-Family Housing

2005-05-12 Architecture

Author : Manuel Gausa
Release : 2005-05-12
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 596/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Housing + Single-Family Housing by : Manuel Gausa

Download or read book Housing + Single-Family Housing written by Manuel Gausa. This book was released on 2005-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities evolve architects are constantly searching for appropriate architectonic solutions, and in this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of presentday cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as lowenergy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from architects such as Wiel Arets, Shigeru Ban, Ben van Berkel, Kees Christiaanse, Philippe Gazeau, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Morger & Degelo, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Kas Oosterhuis, illustrate the subjects discussed. "Housing" and "Single-Family Housing" were previously published separately, each proving hugely popular. Now both volumes have been incorporated into a single, lowpriced edition.

Single-family Houses

2010 Architecture

Author : Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann
Release : 2010
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Single-family Houses written by Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the series Construction and Design Manual provides a substantial introduction to the topic - a comprehensive outline of this area of architecture history supported by some 20 examples and large-scale photographs by the internationally renowned architectural photographer Werner Huthmacher

Single-Family Houses

2019-10-31 Architect-designed houses

Author : Chris van Uffelen
Release : 2019-10-31
Genre : Architect-designed houses
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Single-Family Houses written by Chris van Uffelen. This book was released on 2019-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither mass accomodation nor luxury villa, but an extraordinary variety of well designed middle-class family dwellings in Germany.

Brave New Home

2020-10-13 Social Science

Author : Diana Lind
Release : 2020-10-13
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 648/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Brave New Home written by Diana Lind. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.

The Affordable City

2020-09-15 Political Science

Author : Shane Phillips
Release : 2020-09-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Affordable City written by Shane Phillips. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

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