The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5^th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed.

The focus is on exemplary and transferrable projects, and on innovative and trendsetting concepts. The systematic representation of all projects allows the reader to compare and evaluate various floor plans – and to be inspired by the wealth of ideas and strategies for one’s own design work.

The introductory theoretical and historical essays have been newly written or updated, and offer a structured overview of the residential housing typology and its development.

• Content 5
• Working with the Floor Plan Manual Housing 7
• “The Sweetness of Functioning is Architecture”: On the Use of Floor Plans 9
• A Chronicle of Developments in Housing 15
• Challenges and Tendencies 37
• The Path toward Access and Circulation 43
• The Floor Plan Idea 49
• A Graphic Approach to Floor Plan Design 55
• PROJECTS 60
• 1.1 BLOCK EDGE 72
• 1.2 URBAN INFILL 104
• 1.3 FIREWALL BUILDING 134
• 2.1 SOLITAIRE 152
• 2.2 LINEAR BLOCK / SUPERBLOCK 184
• 2.3 APARTMENT TOWER 228