Living Complex
From Zombie City to the New Communal
Munich : Hirmer, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"The world will need approximately one billion new housing units in the next twenty years. Given the strain on resources and land, houses as we know them today will no longer be economically or ecologically viable. But what should take the place of contemporary dwelling structures? What will new housing concepts look like? And what prevents us from building them?"--Page [4] of cover.
Contents:
Problems of contemporary architecture -- City and suburb -- Being at home : a brief phenomenology of habitation -- Different houses -- A short history of the single-family home -- After the house, beyond the nuclear family -- Transformations of privacy -- Shared spaces -- Closed and open systems -- Atmospheres -- Change the laws!
Subjects:
1900-2099
Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 21st century.
City planning -- History -- 21st century.
Housing.
1900-2099
Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 21st century.
City planning -- History -- 21st century.
Housing.
ISBN:
9783777424101
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Community Maa | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-238).
Translated from the German.
Translated from the German.