NEW BOOK Explores a New Generation of Social Housing Projects from across Europe – By Paul Karakusevic And Abigail Batchelor.
Across Europe, architects working on social housing are at the forefront of new dwelling design, playing a crucial role in the reinvention of our cities. As public housing groups and communities take on the housing crisis, they must today navigate a range of crucial contemporary urban issues, including genuine affordability, demographic change and climate adaptation.
Examining 25 exemplar case studies from across the UK and Europe – including Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland – and with contributions from leading practitioners and their clients, Social Housing explores alternative routes to designing and delivering affordable housing.
A new edition of the landmark 2017 volume, the book explores urban typology, building reuse, climate resilience, ageing populations and material innovation. Encompassing holistic approaches to dwelling design, it offers a practical guide and inspiration for housing practitioners, students and pioneers to learn, adapt and propose solutions for the future.
Featuring exemplary projects from: Karakusevic Carson Architects, Adam Khan Architects, Al-Jawad Pike, Antoine Regnault Architecture, Apparata Architects, Archio, Architectures Raphaël Gabrion, Bajet Giramé, Binst Architecture, Boman, Bourbouze & Graindorge, Carles G. Oliver (with Xim Moyá + Antonio Martín + Alfonso Reina + Miguel Nevado), Cierto Estudio, Clauss Kahl Merz Atelier, Collective Architecture, DBLV Architecten, Déchelette Architecture, einszueins architektur, Espinet Ubach, François Brugel Architectes Associés, h2o Architectes, Helen & Hard, Jaccaud + Associés, Mæ, Mary Duggan Architects, Mikhail Riches, ORG Urbanism Architecture and Peris+Toral Arquitectes.
Interviews and commentary from: Kate Macintosh (architect, London, UK), Osama Shoush (Southwark Council, London, UK), Javier Buron (NASUVINSA, Navarra, Spain) Benjamin Cadranel (citydev.brussels, Brussels, Belgium), Mellis Haward (architect, London, UK), Cécile Belard du Plantys + Hélène Schwoerer (Paris Habitat, France) and Collective Architecture (Glasgow, UK).
Paul Karakusevic, Karakusevic Carson Architects
“European housing has long been informed by the free and easy exchange of ideas between cities and nation states, this book celebrates and reinvigorates that tradition with a set of projects and commentaries that should provoke and inspire housing designers and delivery bodies everywhere. There is no shortage of ways to conceive new social housing, this book provides ample demonstration of that fact.”
Abigail Batchelor, Karakusevic Carson Architects + KBB Architecture
“It’s been almost 10 years since we started research on the first volume of the book and the pace of change since that time has been incredible. Fringe ideas around co-location and materiality have become mainstream policy in Brussels and Paris and in Spain, in particular Catalonia, a whole new culture for public housing has been established. That’s extraordinary. There is so much to be learnt from the direct impact of policy on design.”