
16/08/2025
‘Housing Atlas: Europe Twentieth Century’, survey of some of the most significant European housing schemes of the twentieth century, is a beautiful book, graceful and consistent in its presentation but also austere and in some respects old-fashioned. Both the elaborate drawings and the economical, sometimes hermetic texts that accompany them hint that it is aimed chiefly at architects or, rather, architectural schools and students.
Read Andrew Saint’s review of this publication in our August issue: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202508?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=August+25+issue+promo
Image: Terni, Villaggio Matteotti, by Gabriele Basilico. 1976. Photograph. (© Gabriele Basilico; Archivio Gabriele Basilico, Milan).