Tag: mass housing

Housing for the Greatest Number in Lisbon (1960s-1970s): Olivais and Telheiras. The Analysis of Domestic Space in Relation to the Ways of Life of Different Social Classes

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

Olivais Norte (1955-1959), Olivais Sul (1960-1964) and Telheiras Sul (1974) are paradigmatic cases that demonstrate how in Lisbon, with state support, developments on a city scale were able to address the question of housing for the greatest number. They embodied the idea that resolving the housing question meant thinking not only about the dwelling space, […]

“An Apartment with all Conveniences” was no Panacea

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

Mass housing and the Alternatives in the Soviet Period in Tallinn The story of Soviet mass housing is generally well known – including Khrushchev’s enthusiasm for the establishment of industrial building practices in the second half of the 1950s, the striking contrast between the prefabricated housing developments and earlier academic Stalinist buildings, and the uniformity […]

Planning of Standardized Housing Types in Hungary in 1948 – 1960

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

A special area of post-1945 mass housing was the type-planning of homes, especially in socialist countries where the compulsory use of standardized projects was implemented to simplify the production of new housing within the centrally planned economy. The changes in the floor plans of Hungarian standardized housing closely reflect the alterations of the domestic political […]

From ‘Grand Ensemble’ to Architectural Heritage, from Concentration Camp to Memorial

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

The mass housing project of the Cité de la Muette in Drancy, near Paris This article deals with the pre-war Cité de la Muette at Drancy, in the suburbs of Paris, as one of the key harbingers leading to the international post-war phenomenon of mass social housing. It constitutes a reflection on the clash between […]

Re-Shaping Budapest: Large Housing Estates and their (Un)Planned Centers

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 1 - 2

The core of the theoretical reflection is the modern large housing estate as a spatial unit, its subdivision, and center. The comparative study presents Budapest’s 15 large housing estates (with more than 6000 dwellings) realized during the two 15-year mass housing programs between 1960 and 1990. That time, most of the urban land was publicly […]