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 coop in NYC – 1883
• Member of privately
owned Gramercy Park
• 45 co-op apartments
on ten floors
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
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The Dakota NYC
1884 Ten Floors
103 apartments
Luxury Co-op
Judy Garland
Lauren Bacall
L. Bernstein
John and Yoko
John Madden
Daniel Liebeskind
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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
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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
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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