a+u 648: Dwelling in France maps eighteen residential projects across France — from Parisian urban infill to renovated rural farmhouses — to reveal how contemporary architects negotiate history, density, and the particulars of place.
About This Book
This issue of the long-running Japanese architecture journal a+u turns its attention to residential architecture in France, assembling a selection of eighteen projects that span single-family houses and multi-unit apartment buildings. The range is deliberate: newly constructed urban homes sit alongside farmhouse conversions; intimate domestic interventions are placed in dialogue with mixed-use blocks in urban redevelopment zones. What connects them is a consistent attentiveness to existing conditions — the grain of a historic streetscape, the logic of a rural site, the social dynamics of a changing neighbourhood. For architects and students working through questions of contextual design and housing typology, this is a lucid survey of the current French scene.
Key Features
- 168 pages of editorial photography, architectural drawings, and project documentation across eighteen residential works
- Featured practices include Lacaton & Vassal, Studio Muoto, BAST, Studio Odile Decq, Avignon Architecte, FREAKS Architecture, Atelier du Pont, and Moussafir Architectes
- Six multi-unit projects and twelve single-family houses, spanning Paris and regional France
- Published by Shinkenchiku-sha, ISBN 9784900213074
What You'll Discover
- How leading French practices approach residential design within Paris's tightly controlled historic urban fabric
- The architectural strategies behind farmhouse renovation and adaptive reuse in regional French contexts
- The relationship between mixed-use apartment typologies and urban redevelopment, examined through built examples
- How practices such as Lacaton & Vassal and Studio Odile Decq bring distinct formal and social sensibilities to the domestic programme
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 168
- Dimensions: 220 x 290 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784900213074
- Publisher: Shinkenchiku-sha
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and interior designers interested in French housing typologies, students studying contextual residential design, and practitioners working on adaptive reuse or urban infill projects.