Edited by Dick van Gameren. Text by Dirk van den Heuvel, Dorine van Hoogstraten, Bart Goldhoorn, Mark Swenarton.
DASH 4 focuses on residential floor plans as a locus for innovation within the confines that architects always face--a conservative construction industry, limited budget, etc. Essays examine the tradition of mass residential construction in the Netherlands, through projects by Diener & Diener, Kenneth Frampton, MVRDV and others.
"The concepts 'standard' and 'ideal' are inextricably associated in housing design. Efforts by various architects in the twentieth century to create standardized and affordable dwellings produced an endlessly varied series of ideal homes, some of which were built, others not. While large-scale housing is based to a high degree on optimization and repetition, residential floor plans have nevertheless proven to be the subject of continuous development. Roughly speaking, two approaches can be distinguished: on the one hand, the search for new typologies familiar to us from modern architecture, and on the other, the search for typological invention, which takes the conventions of existing house building practice as its starting point."
FORMAT: Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 125 color / 80 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $60 ISBN: 9789056627577 PUBLISHER: nai010 publishers AVAILABLE: 5/31/2011 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ME
DASH 04: The Residential Floor Plan Standard and Ideal
Published by nai010 publishers. Edited by Dick van Gameren. Text by Dirk van den Heuvel, Dorine van Hoogstraten, Bart Goldhoorn, Mark Swenarton.
DASH 4 focuses on residential floor plans as a locus for innovation within the confines that architects always face--a conservative construction industry, limited budget, etc. Essays examine the tradition of mass residential construction in the Netherlands, through projects by Diener & Diener, Kenneth Frampton, MVRDV and others.
