Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary
- In a time of housing crisis and environmental strain, Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary showcases visionary projects that reimagine how housing design can bring us together and reshape domestic life
- The book speaks to design professionals and academics, but also invites a broader audience concerned with how architecture can reimagine the social contract of living together
- Through original drawings and text, the book surveys sixty housing projects that have shaped domestic imaginaries around the world
- Organised into ten categories, it reveals how housing design has also been pivotal in constructing meaningful urban fragments throughout the twentieth century—this is one of the book’s unique contributions
In an era defined by housing precarity, social fragmentation, and environmental urgency, Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary examines how architects have reimagined—and can continue to reimagine—the way in which we live together. Tracing a lineage of collective housing projects from early twentieth-century experiments to contemporary proposals that challenge dominant market-driven paradigms, the book presents sixty projects from across the globe, redrawn by the authors and organised into ten distinct approaches to housing design. Bridging past and future, built form and experimental drawings, the book summons readers to reconsider housing not only as shelter, but as a critical framework for rethinking domesticity, civic identity, and urban life. This volume invites architects, urbanists, and scholars to embrace collective housing as a critical arena for the design of the contemporary city—and for reexamine the terms of how we can dwell together.
- Publisher
- ORO Editions
- ISBN
- 9781966515616
- Publish date
- 10th Aug 2026
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding USA, Canada, Australasia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan
- Size
- 273 mm x 203 mm
- Pages
- 500 Pages
- Illustrations
- 450 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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