Cooperative Conditions (Anne Kockelkorn)

Recent cooperative housing projects in Zurich have become icons of architectural design internationally. But what makes innovation in nonprofit housing possible within a largely for-profit real estate market? What has enabled Zurich's lasting commitment to nonspeculation for more than one hundred years? How does built architecture partake in these processes - and how does its partaking expand the definition of architecture?Cooperative Conditions answers these questions in a systematic investigation of eight conditions that have allowed Zurich's cooperative housing to thrive under the principles of public benefit, or Gemeinnützigkeit. By analyzing specific financial and regulatory instruments, their history, and their intersection with the built environment, this primer shows that the exceptional quality in Zurich's cooperative housing is possible because of, not despite, the commitment to nonspeculation.

Anne Kockelkorn ist Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of the City and the Architecture of Urban Housing an der Universität Gent. Susanne Schindler ist Architektin, Historikerin und war bis 2024 Co-Leiterin des Master of Advanced Studies-Programm am Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur der ETH Zürich. Rebekka Hirschberg ist Architektin, Forscherin und Aktivistin im österreichischen Kollektiv wohnlabor.

Buch (Paperback), Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur, Englisch, 312 Seiten