Rowhouse Bibliography

Posted in Guides on Wed Oct 4, 06 by Kyle under Domestic Architecture and Books.

In honor of my ongoing obsession with row houses of all kinds I’ve decide to compile a bibliography of books of note concerning the topic. Expect this to grow as I come across new resources, please bookmark and visit back if the topic interests you.

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Contemporary Rowhouse Designs

Posted in Discourse on Fri Sep 29, 06 by Kyle under Domestic Architecture.

I am completely obsessed with row houses, or terrace houses in the British parlance. If you aren’t familiar row houses are tall houses built on deep narrow lots directly touching each other with no side yards, usually involving some kind of shared party walls. Old American cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and San Francisco are famous for their 19th century row houses. Of course most of Europe and Britain are blessed with many centuries of such urban houses. There is a lot of general interest in free standing single family houses and high-style apartment buildings, but to me row houses provide a great balance between the density of apartments and the privacy and neighborhoodliness of individual houses.

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I was very interested when I came across this post on the Inhabitat blog. Although the project designed by Youmeheshe is not row housing per se as the buildings do not touch each other or make a continuous street front, I was thrilled to see that tall, skinny, and densely packed houses are being worked on by contemporary architects.