Though 'mass customization' has for some time been the maqic word with which to bid farewell to the mass production of the twentieth century, it seems that 'standardized solutions' are still the norm in everyday construction practice. A conservative construction industry. strict rules and limited budqets force architects to make the most of the available means in order to produce an ideal desiqn. The Residential Hoor Plan focuses on this dilemma faced by housinq architects. The volume takes two different approaches: firstly, the quest for new typoloqies we are already familiar with from modern architecture and the welfare state, and secondly the typoloqical invention, which by contrast proceeds from the conventions of existinq practice in residential construction. The residential floor plan is the palette on which these different thrusts of development are preeminently visible. Essays by Bart Goldhoorn, Mark Swenarton, Dorine van Hooqstraten and Dirk van den Heuvel examine the tradition of mass residential construction in the Netherlands and survey historical and current desiqn practices in Great Britain, Eastern Europe and Russia. The plan documentation consists of a series of classic and less familiar projects frorn the Netherlands and beyond, includinq projects by Diener & Diener, Frits van Donqen, Kenneth Frampton, MVRDV, Adolf Radinq, Hans Scharoun and WilIem van Tijen. In association with the Chair of Architecture and Dwellinq, Delft University of Technoloqy
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