Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Row Houses - A Housing Typology

This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principlethe row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling cornersis followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.
 

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Courtyard Housing : Past, Present, Future

Courtyard Housing : Past, Present, Future.

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Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that she courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past

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Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Gunter  Pfeifer  and  Per  Brauneck

This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principlethe row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling cornersis followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.

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