The townhouse has been playing an essential role again in the debate on architecture and urban design for about ten years now. That is particularly true in Berlin. Since the state has withdrawn from programs to build subsidized housing, new attention has focused on a renaissance of the inner city through individual, privately financed residential projects.
In this volume of the Construction and Design Manual series, Hans Stimmann, who was Senate Building Director for Urban Development in Berlin for more than ten years and a pioneer of the current townhouse boom, summarises the townhouse's political strategies, roots in architectural history and theoretical concepts. The author also analyses around fifty examples and situates them in their urban context.
> large-format photographs (exteriors/interiors)
> true to scale drawings and plans
> aerial photographs of the urban context
> comparison of construction costs
Projects from: Klaus Theo Brenner, Bernd Albers, Jordi & Keller Architekten, Meuser Architekten, Hon. Prof. Johanne Nalbach, Stephan Höhne Architekten, Thomas Müller Ivan Reimann Architekten, Prof. Hans Kollhoff Architekten, David Chipperfield Architects, abcarius + burns architecture design, Grüntuch Ernst Architekten, schöningmosca Architekten, Kai Hansen Architekten, SDU Architekten, KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike, Beyer-Schubert Architekten, PEB+ NOTTMEYER HARM RECCIUS Architekten, Behzadi + Partner Architekten, Baumeister und Dietzsch, Sergei Tchoban/nps tchoban voss, Roger Bundschuh, Bollinger + Fehlig Architekten, MODERSOHN & FREIESLEBEN, roedig.schop architekten, Michael Müller und Julia Dahlhaus?/?dmsw, Weinmiller Architekten, Florian Fischötter, Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht, Thomas Baumann, Kahlfeldt Architekten und Philipp Rentschler, Haas Architekten, ENS Architekten