Contents 8 Introduction 14 NEW URBAN FORMS 18 Peabody Buildings Pea body Trust 20 Rue Franklin Apartments Auguste Perret 22 Cheap Cottages Exhibition Fraser, Lucas, Dunkerly, Crickmer 26 Van Beuningenstraat Housing J. E. van derPek 28 Gradins Vavin/Amiraux Henri Sauvage 30 Hotel des Artistes George Mort Pollard 34 Spangen Quarter Michiel Brinkman 36 El Pueblo Ribera Courtyard Houses Rudolf Schindler 38 Efficiency Apartments Schultze & Weaver 40 Britz Hufeisensiedlung Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner 42 KarlMarx-Hof Karl Ehn 44 EUROPEAN MODERNISM 48 WeissenhofsiedlungLudwig Miesvan der Rohe Apartment Building 50 Weissenhofsiedlung Row Housing J.J. P.Oud 52 Narkomfin Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis 54 Siemensstadt Housing Hans Scharoun 56 Lawn Road (now Isokon) Flats Wells Coates 60 Vienna Werkbund Houses Adolf Loos 62 Vienna Werkbund Houses And re Lurgat 64 Bergpolder Building Willem van Tijen, Brinkman & Van derVlugt 66 25 and 42 Avenue de Versailles Jean Ginsberg 68 Highpoint Flats Berthold Lubetkin 72 Kensal House Atkinson, Fry, James and Wornum 74 Casa Rustici Giuseppe Terragni with Pietro Lingeri 76 Bubeshko Apartments Rudolf Schindler 78 POST-WAR MODERNISM 82 Unite d'Habitation Le Corbusier 86 Pedregulho Housing Affonso Eduardo Reidy 88 Churchill Gardens Estate Powell and Moya 90 Golden Lane Estate Chamberlin, Powell and Bon 92 Casa de la Marina Jose Antonio Coderch 94 Workers' Housing GiancarloDe Carlo 96 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 98 Price Tower Frank Lloyd Wright 100 Keeling House Denys Lasdun 102 Harumi Apartments Kunio Maekawa 104 Beacon Street Apartments The Stubbins Associates 106 Hansaviertel Apartments AlvarAalto 108 Hansaviertel Tower Van den Broeken Bakema 110 Bellevue Bay Flats and Houses Arne, Jacobsen 112 Halen Housing Atelier 5 116 Tapiola Housing Aulis Blomstedt 118 ALTERNATIVES 122 Marina City Bertrand Goldberg 124 Lafayette Park Apartments Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 126 Peabody Terrace Sert, Jackson & Gourley 128 Blues Point Tower Harry Seidler and Associates 130 Bakkedraget Housing Jorn Utzon 132 The Rytle Phippen Randall and Parkes Moshe Safdie 134 Habitat 67 136 Twin Parks Northwest Site 4 Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen 138 Balfron and Trellick Towers Erno Goldfinger 140 Robin Hood Gardens Alisonand Peter Smithson 142 Nagakin Capsule Tower Kisho Kurokawa 144 University Centre Housing Giancarlo De Carlo 146 Olympic Tower Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 148 Walden7 Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura 150 Emmanuel Benaki Street Apartments Atelier 66 (Suzanna Antonakakis and Dimitris Antonakakis) 152 Housing on Calle Dona Maria Coronel Cruzy Ortiz Arquitectos 154 Gallaratese Housing Aldo Rossi with Carlo Aymonino 156 Quinta da Malagueira Housing Alvaro Siza Vieira 158 POST-MODERNISM 162 Corner Housing at Kochstrasse Eisenman Robertson Architects 164 Housing on Liitzowplatz 0. M. Lingers 166 St Mark's Road Housing Jeremy and Fenella Dixon 168 Rue des Hautes Formes Christian de Portzamparc and Georgia Benamo 170 Noisy II Housing Henri Ciriani 172 Atlantis CondominiumArquitectonica 174 Byker WallRalph Erskine and Vernon Gracie & Associates 176 Housing for the Elderly Steidle + Partner 178 Nemausus Jean Nouvel et Associes with Jean-Marc Ibos, Frederic Chambon and Jean-Remi Negre 180 Pence Place Gwathmey Siegel & Associate 182 IJ-Plein Housing OMA 184 Spiral House Zvi Hecker 186 Nexus World Housing Steven Holl Architects 188 Rue de Meaux Housing Renzo Piano Building Workshc 190 Horizon Apartments Harry Seidler and Associates 192 CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS 196 Kavel 25KCAP 198 Carl-Spitzweg-Gasse Housing Volker Giencke 200 Schlesischestrasse Housing Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architel 202 Silodam MVRDV 206 Sejima Wing, Kitagata Housing Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA 208 Courtyard Houses Souto Moura Arquitectos 210 Rue des Suisses Housing Herzog & de Meuron 212 Schotsl+2 S333 Architecture + Urbanism 216 Yerba Buena Lofts Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc. 218 The Whale deArchitekten Cie. 220 Liverpool Street Housing Ian Moore Architects 222 Mirador Apartments MVRDV+ BlancaLleo 226 Consort Road Housing Walter Menteth Architects 228 Carabanchel 16 Housing Foreign Office Architects 230 Further reading 233 Index 238 Picture Credits 239 Acknowledgements 240 About the CD