arch+ Vienna: The End of Housing as a Typology uses Vienna's century-long experiment in social housing as a lens through which to interrogate whether monofunctional residential typologies remain fit for purpose in an era of rapid urban growth and shifting domestic realities.
About This Book
The myth of Red Vienna — the interwar municipality that treated housing as a social responsibility rather than a market commodity — has never fully dissolved. This publication takes that enduring legacy as its starting point and asks harder questions: what has Vienna's housing policy actually become after a century of change, and does the dominant model of monofunctional residential typology still reflect how people live and work? Drawing on Vienna's current construction boom and its sustained commitment to land reservation and social housing stock, the editors of ARCH+ examine the gap between policy inheritance and contemporary urban reality. Essential reading for architects, urbanists, and housing policy researchers grappling with the future of collective dwelling.
Key Features
- 208 pages of critical essays, built project analysis, and urbanistic commentary on Viennese housing policy and typology
- Edited by ARCH+ (Zeitschrift für Architektur, Urbanismus)
- Published by Spector Books, ISBN 9783959057028
What You'll Discover
- Why Vienna's model of municipal housing has persisted — and how it has quietly shifted toward market accommodation over a century of political transformation
- How land reservation policy has functioned as a structural condition enabling Vienna's social housing to survive where other cities have failed
- Whether the functional and spatial separation of living and working still corresponds to the realities of contemporary urban life
- What "social" actually means in social housing today, and how Vienna's current construction activity tests that question in practice
About the Author
ARCH+ (Zeitschrift für Architektur, Urbanismus) is a German-language journal of architecture and urbanism with a long record of critical, theoretically engaged publishing at the intersection of spatial practice and social policy.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959057028
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urbanists working in residential design, housing policy researchers, students of social housing history, and anyone interrogating the relationship between typology, land politics, and collective dwelling.