Collective Housing

As more and more people move into urban environments, there becomes a greater need for space conscious housing in our cities. Collective Housing is a compilation of the best architectural designs for shared and social housing in a city or urban environment, where aestheticsare essential, and utilization of space imperative. The projects featured come from cities around the world, both those known for innovation in urban architecture such as Tokyo, Japan and Scandinavian capitols, and those less known such as Winnipeg, Canada and Ljubljana, Slovenia. The book provides an uncompromising look at the future of our urban landscapes. Architectural plans and drawings are featured alongside renderings and photographs of the completed housing projects. The text,which accompanies the images, provides further insight into the design, execution, and consideration of the space. The designers and architects featured in Collective Housing were often constrained by existing structures, small or awkward plots of land, and strict city codes. But as the abundance of images in Collective Housing show, this only heightened their creative sensibilities.