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Great Architects Who’ve Built
Great Housing Cooperatives
From Aalto to Wright By David Thompson of
Neighborhood Partners, LLC
www.community.coop
Alvar Aalto
• Southwestern Finland Agricultural Co-operative Building• A multi-purpose commercial, office and residential
building with a hotel, restaurant and theater. Aalto and his family lived there.
Santiago Calatrava • Built for HSB, Sweden’s
largest Housing Co-op• Turning Torso, Malmo• Tallest residential building in
Europe (54 floors)• Conference Center (52-54)• 147 Apartments (14-52)• Office Suites (2-12)• Commercial (Ground Floor)
Le Corbusier• L'Unité The five Largest
Single Block Apartment Complexes in France 300+apts 1,000 people
• Concrete, pilotis feet• Le Cite Radieuse his
most famous work• Nantes stayed a Co-op• Most successful, best
maintained, still serving working people
George Da Cunha
• The Gramercy #34 Gramercy Place
• Oldest continuing co-op in NYC – 1883
• Member of privately owned Gramercy Park
• 45 co-op apartments on ten floors
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
• The Dakota NYC• 1884 Ten Floors• 103 apartments• Luxury Co-op• Judy Garland• Lauren Bacall• L. Bernstein• John and Yoko• John Madden
Daniel Liebeskind
• Grew up at the Amalgamated Co-op in NYC• Westside Shopping and Leisure Center, Bern• Shopping Mall, Hotel, Wellness, Leisure and Living• Owned by Migros, largest Co-op in Switzerland• 3.5 visitors a year, largest private construction
project in Switzerland, European traffic node
Hannes Meyer
• Freidorf, Switzerland• Garden Village• Co-op Suisse Employees• Director, Bauhaus 1930’s• Co-op store, plaza,
allotments, on tram line, shopping center, senior housing
• Lowest cost housing in Basle
Luigi Moretti• Watergate, Washington• 1967 a Ten Acre City • Three Co-ops with
600 apartments• Offices, Hotel, Mall• One infamous office• Co-op Members• Bob & Libby Dole• Condoleeza Rice• Ruth Bader Ginsburg• Monica Lewinsky
Robert Owen
• New Lanark, Scotland, Model Factory Village• Villages of Cooperation Community, Co-op
Shop, School, Allotments, Health Insurance• UNESCO World Heritage Site & Housing Co-op
Again,
Mies Van Der Rohe
• Lafayette Park, Detroit 78 acre Master Plan
• Apartments, offices, park• Contains 2 co-ops• Nicolet Place (to the left)
21 Townhomes• Lafayette E. Cooperative
286 apartments, 29 floors
• Diana Ross lived here
Frank Lloyd Wright
• Usonian Homes, Pleasantville, Just north of NYC • Co-op 47 homes on 100 Acres with 38 acres of communal land• Wright did many other housing co-ops• He did a design for Circle Pines Co-op Camp in Michigan
• Cooperative Homesteads, Detroit UAW, 160 acres, Berm Housing