Housing Atlas: Europe - 20th Century

by Dick van Gemeren, Orsina Simona Pierini, Mark Swenarton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848225873
• ISBN13: 9781848225879
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 5.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.8" x 12.1"