Title & Author:

New housing in Zurich : Typologies for a changing society / Dominique Boudet (ed.)

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, 2017.

Description:

255 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
The Renaissance of Zurich's Housing Cooperatives / Dominique Boudet -- From the Disciplining of the City to the Urban Archipelago: Housing Cooperatives as an Impetus of Zurich's Cityscape / Caspar Schärer -- 'Zurich Wants to Remain a City for Everyone' / Interview with Patrick Gmür -- City and Cooperatives, a Housing-Policy Symbiosis / Daniel Kurz -- Back to the Future / Axel Simon -- Architectural Competitions Have Improved the Projects / Interview with Peter Ess -- Densifying the garden city -- Park city -- The large figure -- Reassessment of the street -- Urban block -- New neighbourhoods -- New frontiers: mixity, diversity, urbanity -- Housing Typologies for a Post-Industrial Society / Andreas Hofer -- Ideology and Collective Life: Zurich's New Cooperatives / Irina Davidovici -- Hardturmstrasse -- Heizenholz -- Kalkbreite -- Zwicky-Süd -- Zolhaus -- Hunziker Areal -- Zurich's Housing Cooperatives: Founding -- Organizing -- Financing -- Financing Plan of a Housing Cooperative Project -- Public-Interest Housing: Major Projects in Zurich 2000-2016.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Swiss 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.

ISBN:

9783038600428
3038600423

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Switzerland Zurich.
Architecture Switzerland Zurich 21st century.
Housing, Cooperative Switzerland Zurich.
Housing Switzerland Zurich.
Architecture Suisse Zurich 21e siècle.
Logement coopératif Suisse Zurich.
Architecture, Domestic Switzerland.
Architecture Switzerland 21st century.
Housing, Cooperative Switzerland.
Housing Switzerland.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Housing.
Housing, Cooperative.
Switzerland Zurich.
Zurich (Switzerland) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Boudet, Dominique, editor.
Boudet, Dominique editor.
Skelton-Robinson, Thomas translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304785
Call No.: BIB 250501
Status: Available