In the 1960s and 1970s, collective housing complexes were built in France and throughout Europe which, although they managed pal alleviate the urgent need for post-war housing, today have serious deficiencies. Frédéric Durot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal face the problem from a new attitude and propose its radical transformation to adapt them to today's lifestyles. 264 p.: ill., fot., col. and b/w, 27 x 19 cm, plànols, paperback. text in Spanish, English and French