Includes bibliographical references (page 252) and index.

Introduction : Evolution of a typology -- Urban villages : Carabanchel housing, Madrid / Morphosis -- Nishinoyama house, Kyoto / Kazuyo Sejima & Associates -- Baroque court apartments, Ljubljana / OFIS Arhitekti -- 25 Verde, Turin / Luciano Pia -- Boréal, Nantes / Tetrarc -- Broadway housing, Santa Monica / Kevin Daly Architects -- Lorcan O'Herlihy: reaching out -- Building blocks : CityLife, Milan / Zaha Hadid Architects -- De Kameleon, Amsterdam / NL Architects -- City Hyde Park, Chicago / Studio Gang -- Studio 11024, Los Angeles / LOH Architects -- 8 house, Copenhagen / Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) -- The interlace, Singapore / OMA, Ole Scheeren -- Bjarke Ingels: exploiting irregularity -- Promoting sociability : Tietgen Student Hall, Copenhagen / Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter -- The Commons, Melbourne / Breathe Architecture -- Star apartments, Los Angeles / Michael Maltzan Architecture -- Torr Kaelan, San Diego / Rob Wellington Quigley -- Hérold, Paris / Jakob + MacFarlane -- Songpa micro housing, Seoul / Single Speed Design -- Michael Maltzan: housing for all -- Spirit of place : Sugar Hill, New York / Adjaye Associates -- The Wave, Vejle / Henning Larsen Architects -- 8 Octavia, San Francisco / Stanley Saitowitz, Natoma Architects -- The ALeph, Buenos Aires / Foster + Partners -- HL 23, New York / Neil M. Denari Architects -- JOH 3, Berlin / J. Mayer H. -- Stanley Saitowitz: rigorous strategies -- Reaching skyward : 8 Spruce Street, New York / Gehry Partners -- Absolute Towers, Mississauga / MAD Architects -- Marco Polo Towers, Hamburg / Behnisch Architekten -- V_Itaim, São Paulo / Studio MK27 -- White Walls, Nicosia / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- Sky Habitat, Singapore / Safdie Architects -- Édouard François: Green Towers -- Looking ahead.

"This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The heart of the book features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to "vertical villages", megastructures and luxury high-rises." --Publisher.

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