Ce livre analyse les projets de logements collectifs contemporains, non pas comme des plateaux bruts destinés à être ensuite décorés mais comme une véritable typologie de bâtiment porteuse de sens.
L'introduction comporte un bref historique du logement collectif à travers des exemples majeurs du XXe siècle comme les blocs urbains d'Auguste Perret et d'Henri Sauvage à Paris jusqu'aux logements paysagés de Weimar en passant par les travaux visionnaires de Le Corbusier.
La suite de l'ouvrage 38 projets récents conçus par des architectes mondialement reconnus, parmi lesquels Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Kazuyo Sejima, Zaha Hadid ou Edouard François.
This book explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for
interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance.
An
introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through
its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of
Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing
estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier.
The
heart of the book features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by
leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from
social housing and micro apartments to ‘vertical villages’,
megastructures and luxury high-rises. Each project is considered for the
way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is
shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and
within.
The book also includes interviews with such contemporary
masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O’Herlihy,
Édouard François and Bjarke Ingels. As our cities grow more crowded, it
is critical that we produce large-scale buildings that enhance the lives
of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a
whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to
designers and apartment-dwellers.
