Floor Plan Manual maps 130 international residential structures across five decades, presenting every project at 1:200 scale alongside sections, site plans, and photographs to make typological comparison genuinely practical.
About This Book
Housing design rarely benefits from survey books that treat precedent as mere illustration. This manual is different: it treats the floor plan as analytical instrument, tracing the evolution of residential typology from the standardised layouts of the 1960s through the more idiosyncratic programmes of the 1980s to the diversified housing types of recent decades. Projects by both celebrated and lesser-known architects are organised by urban planning category, each accompanied by a detailed typological description of the housing type in question. Newly written and updated introductory essays provide a structured historical framework, making this an essential reference for architects and students working in housing design.
Key Features
- 336 pages of floor plans, sections, site plans, and photographs drawn from 130 international residential projects
- Authors: Friederike Schneider and Oliver Heckmann
- All floor plans presented to a consistent scale of 1:200, enabling direct typological comparison
- Published by Birkhauser, ISBN: 9783035611441
What You'll Discover
- How residential floor plan typology shifted from standardisation in the 1960s toward more individual spatial concepts in the 1980s and beyond
- A town planning framework for categorising housing projects, supplementing typological description with urban context
- The range of design responses possible within a single housing type, demonstrated across projects from architects worldwide
- A historical and theoretical overview of residential housing typology, updated to reflect changed requirements and contemporary housing types
About the Author
Friederike Schneider is joined as author by Oliver Heckmann in this edition. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 330 x 245 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035611441
- Publisher: Birkhauser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and housing designers seeking a rigorous typological reference, students of residential architecture, and urban planners working across housing typologies.