The Renewal of Dwelling
European Housing Construction 1945–1975
English, ca. 504 pages, 400 images, 23,8 × 30 cm, softcover with flaps
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Release date: Spring 2021
The publication shows for the first time how a fundamental renovation of living and its architectural implementation could succeed against this background. The comparison of individual projects makes it clear which superordinate topics the residential buildings negotiate and how local issues find their way into the architecture.
The study is based on seventy selected settlements and buildings from seven European cities. Shown are projects from Brussels, Zagreb, Cologne, Oslo, Porto, Lyon and Athens and the region of Liverpool/Manchester and Leeds/Sheffield.
About the author:
Elli Mosayebi studied Architecture at ETH Zurich. In 2005
she founded the office Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten in Zurich
together with Ron Edelaar and Christian Inderbitzin. In her practice and
research she is engaged in developing and implementing innovations in
architecture and housing.
Her dissertation focused on Luigi Caccia Dominioni and the
Milanese Architecture of the postwar period. In 2008 and 2009 she has been a
Fellow Researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her publications include
The Picturesque. Synthese im Bildhaften,
Pamphlet 9 (ILA, ETH Zurich, 2008) and Adolf
Loos. Die Kultivierung der Architektur (gta Verlag, 2008), edited together with
Akos Moravanszky and Bernhard Langer. In 2013 she has been a guest editor for a
special issue of werk, bauen+wohnen on
the life and work of Luigi Caccia Dominioni. From 2012 to 2018 she held the
chair for housing and design at TU Darmstadt, since autumn 2018 she is a
professor for architecture and design at the Departement Architektur of ETH Zurich.
Michael Kraus is an architect and publisher based in Weimar and a research associate at Technische Universitat Darmstadt. His doctoral research focuses on German post–war architecture journals as mediums of both architectural debate and political agenda in regards to the development of housing after World War II.
He studied
Architecture at Bauhaus–Universitat Weimar, IIT Chicago and
Stanford University. In 2010, he has been a co–founder and the
editor-in-chief of HORIZONTE – Journal
for architectural discourse. In 2012 he founded M BOOKS, an independent
publisher of architecture books in Weimar. He is co-editor of the upcoming
monographic volume Poetische Utopie – Der
Architekt und Hochschullehrer Burkhard Grashorn (2016) on the life and work
of Germany‘s first commissioner to the biennial Venice Architecture.