Floor Plan Manual: Housing: 3. Updated and Extended Edition | 
 enlarge | Creators: Christian Gaenshirt, Oliver Heckmann, Bettina Vismann, Friederike Schneider
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 85487
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3., ueberarb. u. erw. Aufl. 2004. Nachdruck
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 12.9 x 9.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 3764370351
Dewey Decimal Number: 729
EAN: 9783764370350
ASIN: 3764370351
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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Product Description
The Housing Floor Plan Atlas, for 10 years the bestseller among our reference works, has lost none of its actuality. Ground floor planning and living space requirements have changed little over the past decade, but the selected case-studies and their graphic presentation have been updated to satisfy the demands of today's audience. This new edition features: - some 35 new examples by Ben van Berkel, Caruso St John, Kazujo Sejima, MVRDV and other prominent modern architects, as well as adding classic case-studies by, for example, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Adolf Loos, Richard Neutra et al. - 220 additional new plans, 110 new photos - improved readability through the use of a second pilot color code - table - bookmark (transparent) with a 1:200 cm measurement scale for easy recognition of plan dimensions.
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 very good! October 30, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very good book, with many types of residential spaces with plans, elevations and many photos too. A very good graphical design and excelent quality of paper, a master piece without doubts!
Definitive book on architectural planning June 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the state of the art in planning information. Editorially, this is the finest work being done in the world, with all issues of book production
(graphic presentation, architectonic and conceptual analysis, format, etc.) of the highest quality. Nothing currently available compares. Essential reference for students and architects.
 A ridiculously handy reference. March 10, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've desired this since I had access to it in an office at which I once worked. Now it's in paperback, revised, and cheap. The editors have a great sense of which projects merit inclusion, offering some basic works and some slightly more radical projects. The brilliant system of scaling everything to the same ratio (and the clever, included transparent scale ruler) makes this truly an efficient reference manual and not just some more architectural pornography.
I find I use this both in work (and for casual browsing) far more often than I really use the sexy full color architecture books of the moment that seem to flood the landscape.
I only have one or two complaints: I'd love to see some of the plans, whose reproduction leaves a lot to be desired, redrawn. Also, I'd love to see some scaled sections for the included projects, since many or the included works transcend full discussion in plan. I guess that would be antithetical given the book title, however.
All said, highly recommended.
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