Mateo Arquitectura

New monograph in the Architectural Papers collection from Josep Lluís Mateo-ETH Zurich

Global Housing Projects. 25 Buildings since 1980. Ed. Chair of Prof. Dr. Josep Lluís Mateo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2008.
ISBN 978-84-96954-47-2.

Josep Lluís Mateo’s Architecture Chair at the ETH Zurich looks at the last 25 years of evolution in housing in terms of the economic, social and cultural phenomenon of globalization by means of a selection of 25 representative, innovative, influential projects.

The volume features analysis and texts by various architects, including Charles Correa, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jean Nouvel, Alvaro Siza, Rem Koolhaas, Riegler Riewe, Hans Kollhoff, Kazuyo Sejima, MVRDV, Lacaton Vasal, Dietmar Eberle, Herzog & De Meuron and PLOT, and proposes new and important guidelines for modern domestic architecture. “The basis of an anthology is always subjectivity (in this case shared: many different agents have been involved…)” Josep Lluís Mateo, in “Contemporary Historicism”, Introduction.