%0 Journal Article
%T Selected trends shaping the architecture of European residential city blocks in the first decades of the 21st century
%A Bigaj, Przemysław
%J Housing Environment
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/25438700SM.20.007.12210
%N 30/2020
%P 62-71
%K European city block, vertical city block, residential architecture in the 21-st century, intimacy of a city block, multi-family buildings
%@ 1731-2442
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/selected-trends-shaping-the-architecture-of-european-residential-city-blocks-in-the-first-decades-of-the-21st-century
%X 
	The subject of the article is the architecture of contemporary residential blocks from different parts of Europe. The aim of the article is to indicate and describe selected aesthetic trends related to the design of their form. The main topic of the article concerns residential city blocks from the first two decades of the 21st century. The research has allowed indicating clear features that dominate and at the same time define the aesthetic expression and characteristic elements of the architectural idea behind contemporary residential city blocks. The principal research methods are analysis and case studies. The results of the research indicate a variety of spatial and aesthetic assumptions, which aids in discovering and searching for new typological solutions that affect the quality of habitation. The research also serves to formulate the theoretical basis for the design of this type of development, and allows one to forecast further directions for the advancement of the idea of a residential city block in the foreseeable future. The findings focus on revealing certain originality and attractiveness of the form as a common determinant of the prevailing pluralism of creative attitudes in modern architecture.