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OverviewSwiss architecture is commonly conotated with the names of celebrated architects such as Marion Botta, Peter Zumthor, or Herzog & de Meuron, and with their iconic buildings. Yet there is much more to the topic than, for example, beautiful private houses or spectacular public projects such as museums. This new book looks at the Swiss variety of co-operative housing developments with a special focus on the city of Zurich. Over the past two decades, such developments have changed significantly. Support by public funding and open competitions have helped to design and realise a vast number of highly innovative co-operative projects in Zurich over that period. Many of them can serve as well as models for how to meet the constantly increasing demand for urban housing. New Housing in Zurich is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary co-operative estates in Switzerland's largest city. It features some 50 projects by type, lavishly illustrated with images and plans, thus also providing a typology of multi-unit residential architecture. Essays on the history of co-operative housing in Switzerland, the interplay between co-operatives and the city and their impact on urban development on the larger scale, on new urban and architectural concepts, on co-operatives in the post-industrial age, and on their social dynamics round out the volume. AUTHOR: Dominique Boudet lives and works as an architecture critic and publisher of AMC architecture magazine in Paris. 200 colour, 50 b/w illustrations Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominique BoudetPublisher: Park Books Imprint: Park Books ISBN: 9783038600428ISBN 10: 3038600423 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 January 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDominique Boudet lives and works as an architecture critic and publisher of AMC architecture magazine in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |