Rowe, Peter G. — Modernity and Housing

Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1993. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards with silver lettering. 408 pp. with 296 bw figures. Starting from the question of how the design of modern housing can be successful, Rowe explores the social, cultural and expressive history of housing at two crucial moments: the first large-scale developments along modernist lines in the 1920s and the widespread reconsideration of modernist principles in the 1970s. The case studies cover Sunnyside Gardens in NY; Romerstadt in Frankfurt; Kiefhoek in Rotterdam; the Byker Redevelopment in Newcastle, England; Villa Victoria in Boston; and the Malagueira Quarter in Evora, Portugal. Includes an appendix of annotated and statistical summaries of data and notes for all the projects in the text. VG, clean and tight / Good- dj has 5 small, tape-repaired tears and part of an old price sticker on front cover.