Great Architects Whove Built Great Housing Cooperatives From Aalto to Wright By David Thompson of Neighborhood Partners, LLC

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, Swedens 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 1930s 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