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