Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl is a compendium of contemporary collective housing ‘conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl’. The book includes detailed case studies of multi-family housing by afgh (Andreas Fuhrimann, Gabrielle Hächler), Alexis López Acosta + Xavier Iván Díaz, Arakawa & Gins, Beckmann-N’Thépé, Bevk Perovic, BKK-3, Bolles + Wilson, Brendeland & Kristoffersen, Clotet & Paricio, Coll - Leclerc, Covas Hunkeler Wyss, Delugan Meissl, Dorte Mandrup, Dosmasuno, dRMM, FOA, GarcíaGermán Arquitectos, Gerardo Caballero, Gigon/Guyer, Helen & Hard, njiric+ arhitekti, Elemental, Jakob+Macfarlane, CAt, KOKO, Koz, Kumiko Inui, Lacaton Vassal, VBM / lava architecten, LOHA, Loos Architects, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Makoto Yokomizo, Manuelle Gautrand, MVRDV + Blanca Lleó, Metrogramma, Michael Maltzan, PPAG, BIG, JDS, Niall McLaughlin, Jacobo Garcia German, Promontório, querkraft, Riken Yamamoto, Ryue Nishizawa, Sadar & Vuga, Senan Abdelqadar, SHoP, Stanely Saitowitz, Steven Holl, Studio Up, Vicente Guallart, WOHA.

Book can be ordered from Total Housing, where excerpts and interviews with contributing architects can also be seen.

Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl
Eds. Tomoko Sakamoto, Irene Hwang, Albert Ferré
Actar, 396pp