This handsome and valuable compendium of social housing projects in Europe is actually three books: a chronological presentation of 10 projects tracing the development of architectural concepts for collective housing from 1919 to about 1970; a superlative example of how well-organized and stunning graphics can allow for comparisons between projects; and a manifesto for promoting humane high-density living.
The authors, who are also the publishers, are members of a group formed in Spain in 1992 to promote architecturally distinguished high-density housing. In this book, they “tell 10 stories” so as not to allow “these works and their architects to go unnoticed by recent generations,” selecting the projects “as one chooses one's friends. Faults and all, they make everything worthwhile.”
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