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(More customer reviews)I looked at this book at the book store for a while designing apartment buildings. I had to get it just to have it in my library. Great floor plans and inspiring ideas. Love Le Corbusier's floor plans for multi-leveled apartments!
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The design of multiple housing – a new building type, especially forgrowing urban populations – was a major new area of activity forarchitects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one thatcontinues into the twenty-first century.This book features some ninety of themost influential modern housing designs of thelast hundred years by some of the best-knownarchitects in the field. Each project isexplained with a concise text and photographsand specially created scale drawings, includingfloor plans and site plans, sections andelevations where appropriate. The projects areorganized in six roughly chronological chapterstracing the history of both public and privatehousing around the world.
Thedetailed drawings allow each project to beanalyzed in depth, which, alongside the author\'s authoritative text, will make this an invaluableresource for architects and students. As anadded bonus, the book includes a CD-ROMcontaining digital files of all the drawingsfeatured in the book.
150 color photographs; 500 line drawings
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