Modern American Housing: High-Rise, Reuse, Infill (New City Books) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616891092 ISBN 13: 9781616891091

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

Modern American Housing: Tower, Reuse, Infill provides a unique look at some of the best practices and latest developments in the design and construction of contemporary housing, focusing exclusively on examples in the American city. The book is divided into three sections, analysing cutting-edge housing designs, each of which fall into three categories based on the project's context: housing towers, reuse of historical structures, and urban infill housing. Each section is curated by a leading practitioner of that type of work: Andrew Bernheimer (towers), Julie Eizenberg (reuse), and Stanley Saitowitz (infill). The projects are been documented with rich photography and drawings, and include a contextual maps which illustrate their urban settings. An essay by historian Jonathan Massey (Syracuse University) and a conversation led by Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP Architects) with various urban planners, architects and policy makers place these case studies in an interpretive framework of speculation about the past and future of the American house.

About this title

About the Author

Peggy Tully is a fellow at Upstate; a centre for design, research and real estate, within the Syracuse University School of Architecture.

From the Back Cover

This survey of award-winning housing, built in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, reflects a combination of marketing and public funding structures and a variety of housing types. An array of approaches to housing by students within studios taught by these architects over a three-year period will be shown. Various forms of housing and other commercial forms of development, including live/work hybrids, office and residential towers, as well as a retail residential mix building types are explored. The design of housing in the United States is often considered from strictly market imperatives, or a formal architectural perspective. The work within this volume seeks to bring together the most enlightened thinking from the realms of social practice, architecture and real estate development to develop a greater awareness of the interdependence of architecture and the marketplace in a ranger of sites and housing types.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616891092
• ISBN 13: 9781616891091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Tully Peggy