Floor Plan Manual: Housing: Third Revised and Expanded Edition

The Housing Floor Plan Atlas, for 10 years the bestseller among our reference works, has lost none of its actuality. Ground floor planning and living space requirements have changed little over the past decade, but the selected case-studies and their graphic presentation have been updated to satisfy the demands of today's audience. This new edition features: - some 35 new examples by Ben van Berkel, Caruso St John, Kazujo Sejima, MVRDV and other prominent modern architects, as well as adding classic case-studies by, for example, Mies van der Rohe...

Emerging Technologies and Housing Prototypes

Innovation in Sustainable Housing: Tango

Sustainable Housing: Principles and Practice

Written by experts using case studies of latest practice, Sustainable Housing: principles and practice presents new perspectives on residential sustainability. This book is based upon the 'Housing and Sustainability' conference at the RIBA in October 1998. It is intended to guide action into the next century, setting down key principles, providing important new technical information, and setting UK practice in a European context.

Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 3: Housing Tactics

Issue 3, Housing Tactics, provides an in-depth look at innovative housing strategies across the Americas. Feature articles investigate a diverse range of subtopics: etekt.com and house_n, innovations which strive to use technology in the design and production of the single-family home; results of the Chicago Housing Competition; and recent housing projects by architects Stanley Saitowitz, Wes Jones, Ted Smith, Teddy Cruz, Marcelo Spina, and Nieto-Sobejano. Includes essays by Kenneth Hayes, Robert McAnulty, Nabil Bonduki, and Gwendolyn Wright.

New Urban Housing

The design of high-density housing is inextricably linked to the growth of towns and cities: as urban centers have increased in both geographical size and density, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the numbers and needs of the population. Whether highly visible or merged with the existing cityscape, a vast proportion of the fabric of any city is made up of residential space. New Urban Housing looks at a selection of some of the most inventive contemporary projects built in countries around the world. Author Hilary French provides a comprehensive...

Housing/Single-Family Housing

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 present-day cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as low-energy 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...