Harry Seidler: Sozialer Wohnungsbau-Innovative Architektur/Sociel Housing-Innovative Architecture : Wohnpark Neue Donau Wien/Neue Donau Housing Estate Vienna - Softcover

Wolfgang Foerster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791327038 ISBN 13: 9783791327037

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 2002

Synopsis

This monograph places the innovative residential complex, the New Danube Housing in Vienna, in the context of Vienna's history of social housing. Starting around 1900, it tells the story of Red Vienna with buildings such as the Karl-Marx-Hof or projects influenced by the Garden City movement, among them buildings constructed by architects such as Adolf Loos, Gerrit Rietveld, Josef Hoffmann or Richard Neutra. It continues by looking at post-1945 social housing and then considers the innovative architecture of Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster. Having examined historical and contemporary developments, the book gives detailed consideration to Harry Seidler's recently completed New Danube Housing, a complex of nearly 900 apartments built on a covered expressway along the Danube.

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From the Publisher:

The book places this innovative residential complex in the context of Vienna’s history of social housing. Starting around 1900, it tells the story of Red Vienna with buildings such as the Karl-Marx-Hof or projects influenced by the Garden City movement, among them buildings constructed by architects such as Adolf Loos, Gerrit Rietveld, Josef Hoffmann or Richard Neutra. It continues by looking at post-1945 social housing and then considers the innovative architecture of Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster. Having examined historical and contemporary developments, the book gives detailed consideration to Harry Seidler’s recently completed New Danube Housing, a complex of nearly 900 apartments built on a covered expressway along the Danube. A unique monograph that combines architectural history as well as current trends, this work is also a welcome addition to the literature on one of the most important architects working today.

About the Author:

Wolfgang Förster is deputy director of the Vienna Land Procurement and Urban Renewal Fund and Head of the coordination department. He is the author of numerous publications on public housing and urban renewal. He lives in Vienna, Austria.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3791327038
• ISBN 13: 9783791327037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96