Freidorf cooperative housing estate
Muttenz, Switzerland
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Built in 1921 in Muttenz, Switzerland, the Freidorf cooperative housing estate is a pioneering garden city designed by architect Hannes Meyer, comprising 150 residential units distributed across 35 buildings. This influential housing project represents early modernist thinking applied to cooperative living and urban planning, and has been recognized as a Swiss townscape worthy of protection and designated a class A Swiss cultural property of national significance.
Architect
- Built
- Type
- garden city, residential area, housing estate
- Heritage
- Swiss townscape worthy of protection, class A Swiss cultural property of national significance
- Place
- Muttenz, Switzerland
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