Ever since the firm's establishment
in 1989, Frankfurt-based Stefan Forster Architekten (SFA) had a special
focus on housing. A starting point for this was the urgent necessity of
refurbishment and modernisation of the vast housing developments
constructed of prefabricated concrete slabs as part of the urban
rebuilding programmes in the newly founded federal states of eastern
Germany following the country's re-unification in 1990. From the initial
'Haus 07' in Leinefelde, Thuringia, SFA have moved on, creating a
remarkable body of work in metropolitan housing. Their designs comprise
large-scale public multi-unit blocs and single-family town houses on
small plots, as well as the transformation of former office and public
administration structures.


This first monograph on SFA highlights
how the firm has constantly worked on raising the standards in
residential architecture, years before the current shortage of housing
in urban areas has made such improvements so urgent. The book features
30 designs that exemplify SFA's approach and philosophy.


Text in English and German.

Contributions by: Michael Mönninger
Text by: Benjamin Pfeifer
Photographs by: Lisa Farkas, Jean-Luc Valentin