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Tract housing came about in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing skyrocketed. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical houses could be built in a "cookie cutter" fashion faster and more cheaply to fulfill the growing demand. Developers would purchase a dozen or more adjacent lots and conduct the building construction as ...
Villa Göth (1950) in Kåbo, Uppsala, Sweden."New Brutalism" was used for the first time to describe this house. The term nybrutalism (new brutalism) [19] was coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth, a modern brick home in Uppsala, designed in January 1950 [11] by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm. [12]
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.
Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building [1] generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there. Beginning with simple pre-historic shelters, home construction techniques have evolved to ...
The term "low-energy house" is used in some countries for a specific type of building. [18] A low-energy house is a guideline rarely specified in actual values (heat load or space-heating minimum). A passive house is a standard, with specific recommendations to save heating energy.
In 2000-01, a modern, four bedroom cob house in Worcestershire, England, UK, designed by Associated Architects, was sold for £999,000. Cobtun House was erected in 2001 and won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Sustainable Building of the Year award in 2005. The total construction cost was £300,000, but the metre (yard) thick outer ...
Craftsmen and designers utilize copper's inherent benefits to build aesthetically pleasing and long-lasting building systems. From cathedrals to castles and from homes to offices, copper is used in many products: low-sloped and pitched roofs, soffits, fascias, flashings, gutters, downspouts, building expansion joints, domes, spires, and vaults ...
One the issues with designing a tiny house is when is to know when a home is too small to live in humanely. [104] On the other side, there is some dispute when a house becomes to big be tiny home, with an upper limit of 400 square feet (37 m 2). [8] [9] Though some disagree, and choosing 500 ft 2, [10] and event 600 ft 2 to define a tiny home. [11]