Floor Plan Manual Housing

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The Floor Plan Manual Housing documents and analyzes 150 international housing projects since 1945. It shows the latest developments in housing and places them in the context of important examples from the past 65 years. This manual is distinguished by the typological and conceptual breadth of the projects it presents and by the extensive time period covered by the selection of examples. The selection of projects by established and still unknown architects is based first and foremost on the outstanding features of the floor plan. The focus is on projects that are exemplary and transferrable and on concepts that are innovative and trendsetting. A new feature - a diagram, a kind of figure-ground-plan, which accompanies each project - illustrates the unique characteristics and spatial qualifies of each floor plan. These diagrams, the systematic and highly informative representation, and the typological description of all projects allow readers to compare and evaluate the floor plans and to be inspired by the ideas and strategies of others - for their own work on floor plans.