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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > General
Since 1987, Eileen Joy Liebman and Fernando Villavecchia have
produced a series of diverse projects from their studio in
Barcelona, Spain, with an emphasis on residential architecture and
the renovation of historic buildings in a range of rural and urban
contexts. Over the years, they have gradually developed an oeuvre
with a special "reserve" and with particular and measured attention
to spatial expression. Projects include the careful restoration and
adaptation of the 1958 Casa Coderch Mila in Cadaques (2017) and the
Casa Sant Llorenc (2014) in the mountains of Lerida. Text in
English and German.
During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and
builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the
subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S. Originally
published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes
are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to
imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to
large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the
period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular:
Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that
the precedents for this change in single-family home design were
the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and
other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of
the historical and structural forces that propelled this change,
Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s
and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who
designed and constructed them. These examples highlight the "shared
set of planning and design concerns" that animated realtors (whom
Loeb sees as having played the "key role" in this process) and the
network of housing experts with whom they associated. Decentralized
and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership
through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and
construction which the author describes as a new and
"entrepreneurial" vernacular.
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