ISBN: 3791335294 9783791335292

Category: Architecture / Buildings / Residential

Page count: 175

This wide-ranging book examines the world's most significant, large-scale housing complexes from the 1920s on-wards and provides a look ahead to the future. Approximately seventy projects, recognized as architectural milestones, chronicle the evolution of these structures, revealing the different goals in each era and this century's most progressive developments. A history of housing that has become all the more topical in the light of new, global challenges. Book jacket.