Pre-launch: The Architecture of Housing Co-ops (Keilecollectief)

City discussion cooperative building. Thursday 12 December. Keilecollectief, Rotterdam. Book your ticket here!

Driven by community spirit and affordability, the Netherlands is seeing strong growth in cooperative building and living. Cities such as Utrecht, Almere, Groningen, Amsterdam and Breda are taking the lead. There are also many Rotterdammers who want to start a housing cooperative in their city. This way, they want to shape their own housing dreams together with others. In the meantime, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in The Hague is working hard to launch the National Fund for Residential Cooperatives, for which an amount of € 40 million was reserved by the previous cabinet. This fund should provide a financial incentive for the start-up and realisation of housing cooperatives in the country.

M4H in the making: The Architecture of Housing Co-ops

Thursday 12 December, 19:00. Keilecollectief, Rotterdam. Free admission. Language: Dutch.
Read more about the programme and speakers here!

The Architecture of Housing Co-ops is available in our webshop and in the bookshop

About the book

In the Netherlands, the housing co-op is on the rise! With its hallmark communal ownership favouring collective construction, this type of housing tenure is seen as a possible solution for the current housing crisis.

To stimulate interest in cooperative living, positive examples are essential. The Architecture of Housing Co-ops highlights successful examples from Germany, where co-ops have a long tradition, alongside more recent Dutch projects. The book demonstrates how housing cooperatives are established, managed, and experienced over the years by residents in both countries.

The Architecture of Housing Co-ops features 10 German and 5 Dutch examples, covering the entire process: from project organization to architecture, from legal entities to financing models, and from completion to resident experiences. The book showcases recent developments through detailed analyses, project documentations, floor plans, and interviews with designers and residents.