Housing Types

"To Norbert, housing and neighborhoods were the birthplace and the cradle of social life. His view was that a house, any house, is important not only as an architectural construct but as a social, cultural and economic incubator as well.

He had a strong commitment to architecture in a broad cultural and ethical and common-sense context. For instance, his suggestion that apartments housing families should not be more than six stories high was based on the eminently human fact that a mother can still recognize her child on the street from that height, and on the ecological one that a good tree reaches about that high" (Sijpkes: 2001).