Courtyard Houses: A Housing Typology - Hardcover

by Günter Pfeifer (Author), Per Brauneck (Author), Usch Engelmann (Translator)

Back Jacket

The thrust of this book is to put the concept of courtyard and row houses back into the public eye. To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. This book, with its 250 illustrations, deals with the various types of the courtyard house as a building block of the city, and goes on to analyze the row house as an urban building block.

Author Biography

Günter Pfeifer is a professor of design and residential building at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology). As a practicing architect he has worked with Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, and others. He taught design and building construction for ten years and is active today in the intelligent, energy-saving, sustainable development of existing building types.

Dipl.-Ing. Per Brauneck is a teacher and researcher at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology).

Together they have already published the book Exposed Concrete: Technology and Design (Birkhäuser Verlag).