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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (October 19th, 1882 - December 23rd, 1940) was a Swiss architect born in Köniz. He worked in Germany from 1905 to 1930. Salvisberg attended the Bauschule des Technikums in Biel/Bienne and graduated with distinction in 1904. He then moved to Germany and settled in Berlin in..

Supersudaca also written Supersudaka with a k is an international think tank of architecture and urban research consisting of 11 members from Ukraine, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic. In an almost stubborn way Supersudaca refuses to believe..

The Schlesisches Tor residential building , known as Bonjour Tristesse , is a Berlin building around 100 meters southeast of the Schlesisches Tor underground station at Schlesischen Straße 1-8 / corner of Falckensteinstraße 4 in the Kreuzberg district .

The house is designed by Alvaro Siza..

During the Weimar Republic in Germany (1919 - 1933) the shortage of affordable residential housing, made social housing one of the priorities of communal politics. The City of Dessau took advantage of the expertise of the Bauhaus which had previously moved to Dessau and commissioned the Bauhaus..

The Siemensstadt residential estate was launched by the Berlin Senate in 1928. it was designed by a group of architects, namely Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius, Otto Bartning and Hugo Häring. Collectively they called themselves 'The Ring' (der Ring in German). Two further architects, Fred Forbat..

Bruno Taut planned this residential estate as a combination of a series single houses and apartment buildings. At the centre of the estate is the Schollenhof which contains about 100 appartments. In recent renovations the colours, whose display are an important element of Taut's architecture,..

The so called Wohnstadt Carl Legien was built by Bruno Taut and Franz Hillinger in 1929 - 1930. The brief of the Berlin senate had called for a high-density residential development with five-storey buildings owing to the high cost of land, the estate being located near the city centre. The site..

The White City in Berlin, also known as Swiss Quarter, in reference to the street names in the vicinity of the complex, was commissioned by the head of city planning at the time, Martin Wagner. Wagner was also responsible for other social housing projects in Berlin. Three of his projects, the..

Byker Wall is the name given to a long unbroken block of 620 maisonettes in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is a part of the Byker Estate which was built between 1969 and 1982 by the late architect Ralph Erskine assisted by Vernon Gracie. It covers an area of approximately..

The residential estate in Britz, a district in the south of Berlin, which is better known as the "horseshoe estate" because of the shape of the central element of the complex, was built from 1925-33 (in seven construction stages) to plans by Bruno Taut. The over 1000 flats are standardised with..

The Gate House was a refurbishment project designed by John Hejduk for the International Bauausstellung 1987 (IBA Berlin 1987) in Berlin. Part of the design required a reorganization of the block, reduction of the block size and creation of mixed uses within the site (including a kindergarten). Add to a collection

Design for a low cost housing type, which can be expanded by the future inhabitants.

The unit can grow in auto-construction from 30m2 up to 90m2. In addition to infrastructural accessibility, this design guarantees the supply of water, sewage and electricity to 150 families of Temuco.

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The Gartenstadt Falkenberg estate was built from 1913 to 1916 and was one of the early works of architect Bruno Taut, who combined bold, bright colours in ways that no one had yet dared consider for the exterior of estate houses. Soon after it was finished, the Gartenstadt received the nickname..

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Anne Lacaton (1955, Saint-Pardoux, France) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (1954, Casablanca, Morocco) met in the late 1970s during their formal architecture training at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux. Lacaton went on to pursue a Masters in Urban Planning from..

Bruno Taut designed the row-houses on the Trierstrasse, called “Papageienhaus” (Parrot House) in 1926 to 1928 for the building society GEHAG in Berlin after his return from Magdeburg in 1924. They were built rougly at the same time as the complex on Buschallee.

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On Buschallee, a boulevard with a tram line in the middle, in the Berlin district of Weissensee, Bruno Taut built 600 flats for the trade union owned building society GEHAG for whom he was an advisor. The complex, a row of four-storey flats which stretch for more than 1000 metres along..

The final building outline was determined by the scale and proportion of the sorrounding buildings. The architects didn’t want to form blocks that oppress their environment. Their primary aim was to find an acceptable, proportioned building form, that keeps the relative regulations, and they..

Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Indian Institute of Architects, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, was born in Pune, India on August 26, 1927, into an extended Hindu family that had been involved in the furniture..

This project for 14 single-family houses is part of an operation for 61 dwellings created by five teams of architects in the extended space of a housing estate in Mulhouse.
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Low-cost housing has always meant small spaces, cheap materials and compact design. In the case of the Cité..