Architecture for Housing bridges the persistent gap between architectural practice and housing research by examining 14 innovative multi-unit dwelling projects through frameworks of social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
About This Book
Urban housing is one of architecture's most contested and consequential domains, yet the dialogue between practitioners and researchers remains fractured. This book addresses that disconnect directly, using 14 residential projects from diverse cultural contexts as the basis for a structured critical inquiry. Organised around three spatial antonyms — the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined — the analysis moves beyond typological survey to interrogate how design decisions respond to, and shape, urban housing systems. Rooted in a lecture series curated by the Melbourne School of Design, it extends an ongoing debate into permanent, citable form. Essential reading for architects, urban designers, and housing researchers working across the contemporary city.
Key Features
- 264 pages of case study analysis, spatial diagrams, and comparative housing research
- Author: Djordje Stojanovic, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, University of Melbourne
- 14 innovative multi-unit dwelling projects from diverse cultural contexts
- Developed from a lecture series curated by the Melbourne School of Design
- Published by Birkhauser Verlag
What You'll Discover
- How the tension between individual and communal space is resolved across 14 distinct residential projects
- The role of interior/exterior thresholds in shaping social life within multi-unit housing
- How degrees of spatial determinacy and openness affect long-term adaptability and inhabitant agency
- The structural gap between architectural practice and housing research, and how it might be closed through design thinking
About the Author
Djordje Stojanovic is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne. His work interrogates the relationship between architectural practice and housing research, with a particular focus on multi-unit residential design and urban sustainability.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 264
- Dimensions: 28.0 x 22.0 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035627619
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urban designers working on residential projects, housing researchers, academics and students at architecture schools, and policy-minded practitioners engaged with questions of sustainable urban dwelling.