WHAT WE'RE READING: WHAT MAKES A GREAT HOUSE IN THE CITY?

A House in the City: Home Truths in Urban Architecture

Editor Tim Battle, authors Robert Dalziel and Sheila Qureshi

RIBA Publishing
December 2012/ January 2013
176 pages

Authors Robert Dalziel and Sheila Qureshi search the world for what they consider to be the most successful types of housing for urban living – from old to new, high rise to low rise, innovative to conventional. Their key requirements for city living are: adaptability and flexibility, construction and sustainability, space and light, appearance and threshold, and density and urban form. The authors use their investigations and insights to propose a new form of an urban family home that can easily adapt to changing needs.

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Photos: Jonathan Charles (Rational House/ RIBA Publishing)

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