| Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations [With CDROM] Contributor(s): French, Hilary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393732460 ISBN-13: 9780393732467 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 Annotation: A collection of housing designs built over the last hundred years, illustrating innovative approaches. Fourth in the "Key" series, with newly drawn plans suitable for study in architecture schools, this volume will appeal to students of urban design and planning as well as architecture. Key developments covered include early apartment blocks, the projects of European modernism, high-rise and large-scale schemes, and postmodernism. Exterior and interior photographs show materials, massing, and context. 150 color photographs, 500 line drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Residential - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) |
| Dewey: 728.090 |
| LCCN: 2008019793 |
| Series: Key Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 9.8" W x 11.3" (2.65 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book features some ninety of the most influential modern housing designs of the last hundred years by some of the best-known architects in the field. Each project is explained with a concise text and photographs and specially created scale drawings, including floor plans and site plans, sections and elevations where appropriate. The projects are organized in six roughly chronological chapters tracing the history of both public and private housing around the world. The detailed drawings allow each project to be analyzed in depth, which, alongside the author's authoritative text, will make this an invaluable resource for architects and students. As an added bonus, the book includes a CD-ROM containing digital files of all the drawings featured in the book. |
Contributor Bio(s): French, Hilary: - Hilary French heads the School of Architecture & Design at the Royal College of Art, London. |
